Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Rydal | | Rydal | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | ADIEU, Rydalian laurels! that have grown | |
| And spread as if ye knew that days might come | |
| When ye would shelter in a happy home, | |
| On this fair mount, a poet of your own, | |
| One who ne’er ventured for a Delphic crown | 5 |
| To sue the god; but, haunting your green shade | |
| All seasons through, is humbly pleased to braid | |
| Ground-flowers, beneath your guardianship self-sown. | |
| Farewell! no minstrels now with harp new-strung | |
| For summer wandering quiet their household bowers; | 10 |
| Yet not for this wants Poesy a tongue | |
| To cheer the itinerant on whom she pours | |
| Her spirit, while he crosses lonely moors | |
| Or, musing, sits forsaken halls among. | | | | |
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