William Cullen Bryant Quote

Your peaks are beautiful, ye Apennines!
In the soft light of these serenest skies;
From the broad highland region, black with pines,
Fair as the hills of Paradise they rise,
Bathed in the tint Peruvian slaves behold
In rosy flushes on the virgin gold.

Poems... (Third edition [re-arranged by the author].) With illustrations by E. Leutze, etc. [With a portrait.] (ed. 1847)