Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. America: Vols. XXVXXIX. 187679. | | Middle States: Racket (Raquette), the River, N. Y. | Down the Racket | Alfred Billings Street (18111881) |
| 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 |
Aswhose azure eye! | |
Soft and sweet the wandering breezes | |
Aswhose gentle sigh! | |
White the cloudlet wreathing oer us | |
As her spotless brow! | 10 |
Oh, what king was eer 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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