Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Inverary | | Inverary | | James Payn (1830–1898) |
| | | PLEASANT woods of Inverary, | |
| Shadowing far o’er lawn and lea, | |
| Music of your summer murmur | |
| Breathes no more for me; | |
| Underneath your stately arches | 5 |
| Yet may dreamer, student, lie, | |
| Poet at his perfect pleasure,— | |
| So no more shall I. | |
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| Far beside fair Douglas water | |
| Other charméd feet may stray, | 10 |
| Seeking whence its song beginneth | |
| Half a summer’s day; | |
| Where the ancient archway darkens, | |
| Deeper yet the blood-red line, | |
| Cross the ford, and past the rapid: | 15 |
| Nevermore shall mine. | |
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| Dhuloch, queen of inland waters, | |
| Virgin, yet so near allied, | |
| Morn and eve with plaint and tremor | |
| Sought for Ocean’s bride; | 20 |
| Nevermore I woo thine echoes, | |
| Never let the oar-blades glance, | |
| Lightly as the wings of heron, | |
| Not to break thy trance. | |
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| Long farewell to Inverary! | 25 |
| Gleams no more the white-walled town, | |
| Fallen is the ancient watch-tower, | |
| Hid Ben Büi’s frown; | |
| Fades the purple of the moorlands, | |
| Fails the lake’s last look of blue | 30 |
| Through the trees of far Arkinglass, | |
| And my heart fails too. | | | | |
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