A Sonnet Written on Hearing That a Monument was To Be Erected to the Memory of Walter Scott
WRITTEN ON HEARING THAT A MONUMENT WAS TO BE ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF SIR WALTER SCOTT
'Tis said that, 'mid the Alps and Pyrenees,
And other lofty mountains, and in groves,
And hidden places where the bandit roves,
Uptowering piles of stones the traveller sees,
That mark the spot where some have fallen and died:
For them these shapeless monuments are reared,
And, though to none who passes by endeared,
Each from his journeying, will turn aside
To cast his mite upon the rising moles,
And guard the memory of the lost unknown;
In this a deep, strong sentiment is shown —
A kindred for the dead in living souls.
If such, oh world-renowned, thy grave could be,
An Alp would rise a monument to thee!
'Tis said that, 'mid the Alps and Pyrenees,
And other lofty mountains, and in groves,
And hidden places where the bandit roves,
Uptowering piles of stones the traveller sees,
That mark the spot where some have fallen and died:
For them these shapeless monuments are reared,
And, though to none who passes by endeared,
Each from his journeying, will turn aside
To cast his mite upon the rising moles,
And guard the memory of the lost unknown;
In this a deep, strong sentiment is shown —
A kindred for the dead in living souls.
If such, oh world-renowned, thy grave could be,
An Alp would rise a monument to thee!
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