Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Dean-Bourn | | Dean-Bourn, a Rude River in Devon | | Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
| | | DEAN-BOURN, farewell; I never look to see | |
| Deane, or thy warty incivility. | |
| Thy rockie bottome, that doth teare thy streams, | |
| And makes them frantick, ev’n to all extreames, | |
| To my content, I never sho’d behold, | 5 |
| Were thy streams silver, or thy rocks all gold. | |
| Rockie thou art; and rockie we discover | |
| Thy men; and rockie are thy wayes all over. | |
| O men, O manners! now, and ever knowne | |
| To be a rockie generation! | 10 |
| A people currish, churlish as the seas, | |
| And rude, almost, as rudest salvages; | |
| With whom I did, and may re-sojourne when | |
| Rockes turn to rivers, rivers turn to men. | | | | |
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