Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Tweed, the River | | The Inundation | | Walter Thornbury (1828–1876) |
| | | SAYS the Tweed to the Till, | |
| “What makes you run so still?” | |
| Till says to Tweed, | |
| “Though you run with speed, | |
| And I run slow, | 5 |
| Yet, where you drown one man, | |
| I can drown two!” | |
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| Says the Till to the Tweed, | |
| “Where shall we meet?— | |
| By the Cross of Swinton, | 10 |
| Or in Berwick Street?” | |
| Says the Tweed to the Till, | |
| “I am deadly though slow; | |
| For three men that cross my fords, | |
| Two sink below.” | 15 |
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| “The Eden will join us. | |
| Her banks are all brimming; | |
| And down her red waters | |
| The Kelpies are swimming; | |
| Deep, dark, and rushing, | 20 |
| The Whiteadder ’s pouring. | |
| When we four meet again | |
| There ’ll be a roaring!— | |
| Women’s loud wailing, | |
| And peasants imploring!” | 25 | | | |
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