Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Winchester | | On Leaving Winchester School | | William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) |
| | | THE SPRING shall visit thee again, | |
| Itchin! and yonder ancient fane, | |
| That casts its shadow on thy breast, | |
| As if, by many winters beat, | |
| The blooming season it would greet, | 5 |
| With many a straggling wild-flower shall be dressed. | |
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| But I amid the youthful train | |
| That stray at evening by thy side, | |
| No longer shall a guest remain | |
| To mark the spring’s reviving pride. | 10 |
| I go not unrejoicing; but who knows | |
| When I have shared, O world! thy common woes, | |
| Returning I may drop some natural tears; | |
| As these same fields I look around, | |
| And hear from yonder dome the slow bell sound, | 15 |
| And think upon the joys that crowned my stripling years! | | | | |
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