Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | Middle States: Trenton Falls, N. Y. | | Trenton Falls | | Maria Lowell (1821–1853) |
| | (From Memories of Waters)
POUR down, O Trenton, thy amber screen, | |
| That the pool’s dim surface no more be seen! | |
| Gay reveller, tossing away thy wine, | |
| Thy golden sherry, whose hue divine | |
| Was never sphered in the clustering vine, | 5 |
| ’T is Autumn who feeds thee; her banners she flings | |
| Across thy full sources, and shakes in thy springs | |
| Her whole wealth of colors, leaves orange and red, | |
| Green, purple, and mottled, an emperor’s bed | |
| For thy waters to dream on; and when they awake, | 10 |
| Into flashes of gold and of amber they break: | |
| Oh, type of glad youth, forever be hung | |
| With garlands of faces all rosy and young! | | | | |
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