Sonnet to Lake Leman
Rousseau--Voltaire--our Gibbon--and De Staël--Leman! these names are worthy of thy shore,Thy shore of names like these! wert thou no more,Their memory thy remembrance would recall:To them thy banks were lovely as to all,But they have made them lovelier, for the loreOf mighty minds doth hallow in the coreOf human hearts the ruin of a wallWhere dwelt the wise and wondrous; but by theeHow much more, Lake of Beauty! do we feel,In sweetly gliding o'er thy crystal sea,The wild glow of that not ungentle zeal,Which of the Heirs of ImmortalityIs proud, and makes the breath of Glory real!
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