Sonnet to Lake Leman(口白) - Lord Byron

Sonnet To Lake Leman By Byron - Ghizela Rowe
Sonnet To Lake Leman By Byron
Rousseau Voltaire our Gibbon and De Staël
Leman these names are worthy of thy shore
Thy shore of names
Like these wert thou no more
Their memory thy remembrance would recall
To them thy banks were lovely as to all
But they have made them lovelier
For the lore
Of mighty minds doth hallow in the core
Of human hearts the ruin of a wall
Where dwelt the wise and wondrous
But by thee
How much more Lake of Beauty
Do we feel
In sweetly gliding over thy crystal sea
The wild glow of that not ungentle zeal
Which of the Heirs of Immortality
Is proud and makes the breath of Glory real