Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79.
Mont Blanc
By Lord Byron (17881824)(From Manfred)
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They crowned him long ago
On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds,
With a diadem of snow.
The avalanche in his hand;
But ere it fall, that thundering ball
Must pause for my command.
Moves onward day by day;
But I am he who bids it pass,
Or with its ice delay.
Could make the mountain bow
And quiver to his caverned base,—
And what with me wouldst Thou?