At summer eve, when heaven’s aerial bow
Spans with bright arch the glittering hills below,
Why to yon mountain turns the musing eye,
Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky?
Why do those cliffs of shadowy tint appear
More sweet than all the landscape smiling near? –
‘Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
(Thomas Campbell)
More Poetry from Thomas Campbell:
- Lochiel's Warning (Thomas Campbell Poems)
- Last Man, The (Thomas Campbell Poems)
- Hope Triumphant in Death (Thomas Campbell Poems)
- Battle of the Baltic, The (Thomas Campbell Poems)
- Maternal Hope (Thomas Campbell Poems)
- Glenara (Thomas Campbell Poems)