Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. England: Vols. IIV. 187679. | | Workington | Mary Queen of Scots | William Wordsworth (17701850) |
| Landing at the Mouth of the Derwent, Workington DEAR to the Loves and to the Graces vowed, | |
The Queen drew back the wimple that she wore; | |
And to the throng, that on the Cumbrian shore | |
Her landing hailed, how touchingly she bowed! | |
And like a star (that, from a heavy cloud | 5 |
Of pine-tree foliage poised in air, forth darts, | |
When a soft summer gale at evening parts | |
The gloom that did its loveliness enshroud) | |
She smiled; but Time, the old Saturnian seer, | |
Sighed on the wing as her foot pressed the strand, | 10 |
With step prelusive to a long array | |
Of woes and degradations hand in hand, | |
Weeping captivity and shuddering fear | |
Stilled by the ensanguined block of Fotheringay! | | | |
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