Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | New Forest | | Rhinefield | | William Sotheby (1757–1833) |
| | A Lodge in the New Forest
RHINEFIELD! as through thy solitude I rove, | |
| Now lost amid the deep wood’s gloomy night, | |
| Doubtful I trace a ray of glimmering light; | |
| Now where some antique oak, itself a grove, | |
| Spreads its soft umbrage o’er the sunny glade, | 5 |
| Stretched on its mossy roots at early dawn, | |
| While o’er the furze with light bound leaps the fawn, | |
| I count the herd that crops the dewy blade: | |
| Frequent at eve list to the hum profound | |
| That all around upon the chill breeze floats, | 10 |
| Broke by the lonely keeper’s wild, strange notes; | |
| At distance followed by the browsing deer; | |
| Or the bewildered stranger’s plaintive sound | |
| That dies in lessening murmurs on the ear. | | | | |
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