Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Lincolnshire | | Lincoln Fens | | John Armstrong (1709–1779) |
| | | BUT on the marshy plains that Lincoln spreads | |
| Build not, nor rest too long thy wandering feet. | |
| For on a rustic throne of dewy turf, | |
| With baneful fogs her aching temples bound, | |
| Quartana there presides: a meagre fiend | 5 |
| Begot by Eurus, when his brutal force | |
| Compressed the slothful Naiad of the Fens. | |
| From such a mixture sprung, this fitful pest | |
| With feverish blasts subdues the sickening land: | |
| Cold tremors come, with mighty love of rest, | 10 |
| Convulsive yawnings, lassitude, and pains | |
| That sting the burdened brows, fatigue the loins, | |
| And rack the joints and every torpid limb; | |
| Then parching heat succeeds, till copious sweats | |
| O’erflow: a short relief from former ills. | 15 | | | |
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