Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, STANZ, by JAMES MONTGOMERY


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First Line: Nature's bulwarks, built by time
Last Line: With her children scattered round.
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): Alps; Mountains; Stanz, Switzerland; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


NATURE'S bulwarks, built by Time,
'Gainst Eternity to stand,
Mountains terribly sublime,
Girt the camp on either hand.

Dim, behind, the valley brake
Into rocks that fled from view;
Fair in front the gleaming lake
Rolled its waters bright and blue.

Midst the hamlets of the dale,
Stanz, with simple grandeur crowned,
Seemed the mother of the vale,
With her children scattered round.





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