Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. Scotland: Vols. VIVIII. 187679. | | Ednam | To the Shade of Thomson | Robert Burns (17591796) |
| WHILE virgin Spring, by Edens flood, | |
Unfolds her tender mantle green, | |
Or pranks the sod in frolic mood, | |
Or tunes Æolian strains between; | |
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While Summer with a matron grace | 5 |
Retreats to Dryburghs cooling shade, | |
Yet oft, delighted, stops to trace | |
The progress of the spiky blade; | |
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While Autumn, benefactor kind, | |
By Tweed erects his aged head, | 10 |
And sees, with self-approving mind, | |
Each creature on his bounty fed; | |
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While maniac Winter rages oer | |
The hills whence classic Yarrow flows, | |
Rousing the turbid torrents roar, | 15 |
Or sweeping, wild, a waste of snows, | |
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So long, sweet Poet of the year, | |
Shall bloom that wreath thou well hast won; | |
While Scotia, with exulting tear, | |
Proclaims that Thomson was her son. | 20 | | |
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