Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Larbert | | Rural Scenery | | David Macbeth Moir (1798–1851) |
| | | RECEDED hills afar of softened blue, | |
| Tall bowering trees, through which the sunbeams shoot | |
| Down to the waveless lake, birds never mute, | |
| And wild-flowers all around of every hue,— | |
| Sure ’t is a lovely scene. There, knee-deep stand, | 5 |
| Safe from the fierce sun, the o’ershadowed kine, | |
| And to the left, where cultured fields expand, | |
| Mid tufts of scented thorn the sheep recline. | |
| Lone quiet farmsteads, haunts that ever please, | |
| O, how inviting to the traveller’s eye | 10 |
| Ye rise on yonder uplands, mid your trees | |
| Of shade and shelter! Every sound from these | |
| Is eloquent of peace, in earth and sky, | |
| And pastoral beauty, and Arcadian ease. | | | | |
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