Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Mull, the Island | | The Same | | Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886) |
| | | SWEET Water-nymph, more shy than Arethuse, | |
| Why wilt thou hide from me thy green retreat, | |
| Where duly thou with silver-sandalled feet, | |
| And every Naiad, her green locks profuse, | |
| Welcome with dance sad Evening, or unloose, | 5 |
| To share your revel, an oak-cinctured throng, | |
| Oread and Dryad, who the daylight long | |
| By rock, or cave, or antique forest, use | |
| To shun the Wood-god and his rabble bold? | |
| Such comes not now, or who with impious strife | 10 |
| Would seek to untenant meadow, stream, and plain, | |
| Of that indwelling power which is the life | |
| And which sustaineth each, which poets old | |
| As god and goddess thus have loved to feign. | | | | |
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