Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Afton Water | | Flow Gently, Sweet Afton | | Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
| | | FLOW gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, | |
| Flow gently, I ’ll sing thee a song in thy praise; | |
| My Mary ’s asleep by thy murmuring stream, | |
| Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. | |
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| Thou stock-dove whose echo resounds through the glen, | 5 |
| Ye wild whistling blackbirds in yon thorny den, | |
| Thou green-crested lapwing thy screaming forbear, | |
| I charge you disturb not my slumbering fair. | |
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| How lofty, sweet Afton, thy neighboring hills, | |
| Far marked with the courses of clear winding rills; | 10 |
| There daily I wander as noon rises high, | |
| My flocks and my Mary’s sweet cot in my eye. | |
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| How pleasant thy banks and green valleys below, | |
| Where wild in the woodlands the primroses blow; | |
| There oft as mild evening weeps over the lea, | 15 |
| The sweet-scented birk shades my Mary and me. | |
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| Thy crystal stream, Afton, how lovely it glides, | |
| And winds by the cot where my Mary resides; | |
| How wanton thy waters her snowy feet lave, | |
| As gathering sweet flowerets she stems thy clear wave. | 20 |
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| Flow gently, sweet Afton, among thy green braes, | |
| Flow gently, sweet river, the theme of my lays; | |
| My Mary ’s asleep by thy murmuring stream, | |
| Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. | | | | |
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