Poems (Jordan)/Switzerland
SWITZERLAND
Here Heaven and earth clasp in closest embrace;Here Beauty makes canvas of measureless spaceWhereon her unfading pictures to trace!Here Joy is petrified at highest leap!Here Day by Night's couch her vigil doth keep!
O Switzerland! Nature's Doxology,Sung by the ages, continuously!Thy mountain-hands lift as priests, blessingly,And wreathed with glory are their furrowed scalps,By Eidelweiss,—ermine-clad daisies of the Alps!