There on the border, where the land of Kai Doth touch the frontier of Suruga's land. A beauteous province stretched on either hand, See Fuji-yama rear his head on high! The clouds of heaven in reverent wonder pause; Nor may the birds those giddy heights essay Where melt thy snows amid thy fires away, Or thy fierce fires lie quenched beneath thy snows. What name might fitly tell, what accents sing, Thine awful, godlike granduer? 'Tis thy breast That holdeth Narusawa's flood at rest, Thy side whence Fujikawa's water spring. Great Fuji-yama, towering to the sky! A treasure art thou given to mortal man, A god-protector watching o'er Japan; On thee forever let me feast mine eye! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SPIRIT OF POETRY by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW LOUISA MAY ALCOTT by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 13 by OMAR KHAYYAM TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 16. A FAREWELL by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE ON A FORSAKEN LARK'S NEST by MATHILDE BLIND PARLEYINGS WITH CERTAIN PEOPLE OF IMPORTANCE: GERARD DE MANDEVILLE by ROBERT BROWNING THE WANING MOON by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT |