Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | Middle States: Racket (Raquette), the River, N. Y. | | Down the Racket | | Alfred Billings Street (1811–1881) |
| | | DOWN the winding woodland river, | |
| Oh, how swift we glide! | |
| Every tree and bush and blossom | |
| Mirrored in the tide; | |
| Bright and blue the heaven above us | 5 |
| As—whose azure eye! | |
| Soft and sweet the wandering breezes | |
| As—whose gentle sigh! | |
| White the cloudlet wreathing o’er us | |
| As her spotless brow! | 10 |
| Oh, what king was e’er so joyous | |
| As we roamers now! | |
| Ho, ho, we merrily go | |
| Down the winding, sparkling flow! | |
| Down so cheerily, | 15 |
| Never wearily, | |
| Ho, ho, we merrily go | |
| Down to the lovely lake below! | |
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| Mark the crane wide winnowing from us! | |
| Off the otter swims! | 20 |
| Round her fortress sails the fish-hawk; | |
| Down the wood-duck skims! | |
| Glitters rich the golden lily, | |
| Glows the Indian Plume, | |
| On yon point a deer is drinking, | 25 |
| Back he shrinks in gloom; | |
| Now the little sparkling rapid! | |
| Now the fairy cove! | |
| Here, the sunlight-mantled meadow! | |
| There, the sprinkled grove! | 30 |
| Ho, ho, we merrily go | |
| Down the winding, glittering flow! | |
| Down so cheerily! | |
| Never wearily! | |
| Ho, ho, we merrily go | 35 |
| Down to the lovely lake below! | | | | |
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