Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Loddon, the River | | On Revisiting the River Loddon | | Thomas Warton (1728–1790) |
| | | AH! what a weary race my feet have run | |
| Since first I trod thy banks with alders crowned, | |
| And thought my way was all through fairy ground, | |
| Beneath the azure sky and golden sun,— | |
| When first my muse to lisp her notes begun! | 5 |
| While pensive memory traces back the round | |
| Which fills the varied interval between, | |
| Much pleasure, more of sorrow, marks the scene. | |
| Sweet native stream! those skies and suns so pure | |
| No more return to cheer my evening road! | 10 |
| Yet still one joy remains, that not obscure | |
| Nor useless all my vacant days have flowed | |
| From youth’s gay dawn to manhood’s prime mature, | |
| Nor with the muse’s laurel unbestowed. | | | | |
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