Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Inversnaid | | Inversnaid | | Andrew James Symington (1826–1898) |
| | | IN little boat we lie | |
| Close by the waterfall, at Inversnaid, | |
| Which in a broad thin sheet comes dashing o’er | |
| Brown cliffs, embosomed in green foliage,— | |
| Bright rainbows gleaming in its mist-like spray; | 5 |
| While, from the crevices of neighboring rocks | |
| Spring graceful harebells, nodding in the breeze, | |
| And mirrored on the silent lake. Then gusts | |
| Sweep sudden down the glens, a-wrinkling all | |
| The surface of the loch; and veiling clouds | 10 |
| Rest on the mountain peaks. We hear, | |
| Now, Ossian’s wildly murmuring wind-swept harp | |
| Wail, echoed from far, lonely, dusky heights. | | | | |
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