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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOUNT AUBURN, by ISAAC MCLELLAN JR. Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet auburn! O'er thy rolling slopes
Last Line: Whereon day's latest incense burns.
Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts
First Line: Sweet auburn! O'er thy rolling slopes
Last Line: Whereon day's latest incense burns.
Subject(s): Cambridge, Massachusetts
SWEET Auburn! o'er thy rolling slopes
The sparkling winter snows are spread;
Fast, fast the feathery flakes descend
O'er these calm dwellings of the dead;
And evening with its thickening glooms,
Enshrouds the city of the tombs!
Yet ere the latest flame of day
Along these devious walks shall fade,
Let me across the breezy height
Still press, and through each sombrous glade,
And commune with this silent crowd,
In stony cell and swathing shroud.
Twilight enkindles with its blaze
White columns, glimmering all around;
High soaring obelisks, that throw
Their lengthening shadows o'er the ground;
And tapering shafts, and gleaming urns
Whereon day's latest incense burns.
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