• From “The Traveller”
                            TURN me to survey
    Where rougher climes a nobler race display,
    Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread,
    And force a churlish soil for scanty bread:
    No product here the barren hills afford
    But man and steel, the soldier and his sword;
    No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array,
    But...

  • Our lives are Swiss —

    So still — so Cool —

    Till some odd afternoon

    The Alps neglect their Curtains

    And we look farther on!


    Italy stands the other side!

    While like a guard between —

    The solemn Alps —

    The siren Alps

    Forever intervene!