Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Earn, the River | | To the River Earn | | Thomas Pringle (1789–1834) |
| | | THOU, mountain stream, whose early torrent course | |
| Hath many a drear and distant region seen, | |
| Windest thy downward way with slackened force, | |
| As with the journey thou hadst wearied been; | |
| And, all enamored of these margins green, | 5 |
| Delight’st to wander with a sportive tide; | |
| Seeming with refluent current still to glide | |
| Around the hazel banks that o’er thee lean. | |
| Like thee, wild stream! my wearied soul would roam | |
| (Forgetful of life’s dark and troublous hour), | 10 |
| Through scenes where Fancy frames her fairy bower, | |
| And Love, enchanted, builds his cottage-home: | |
| But time and tide wait not, and I, like thee, | |
| Must go where tempests rage, and wrecks bestrew the sea! | | | | |
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