Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. Scotland: Vols. VIVIII. 187679. | | Kelvin Water | To Kelvin Water | James Cochrane |
| SEQUESTERED stream! I saw year after year | |
The noxious town expanding, street on street, | |
Blighting the rural charms of thy retreat, | |
Where whispering lovers, no intruders near, | |
Walked hand in hand; where oft with stealthy feet | 5 |
I hied along thy banks at morn, to hear | |
The small shrill wren the springs reveille beat: | |
And as a bird, when robbed by driving sleet | |
Or cruel imps of half its fledglings dear, | |
Clings but the closer to the few still left, | 10 |
So I to thee while one tree was uncleft; | |
But every vestige of the forest gone, | |
Like the same bird when reft of all her brood, | |
Who pours her mournful ditty through the wood, | |
I sing thy dirge far off, and all alone. | 15 | | |
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