Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Castle-Gordon | | Castle-Gordon | | Robert Burns (1759–1796) |
| | | STREAMS that glide in Orient plains, | |
| Never bound by winter’s chains; | |
| Glowing here on golden sands, | |
| There commixed with foulest stains, | |
| From tyranny’s empurpled bands; | 5 |
| These, their richly gleaming waves, | |
| I leave to tyrants and their slaves; | |
| Give me the stream that sweetly laves | |
| The banks by Castle-Gordon. | |
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| Spicy forests, ever gay, | 10 |
| Shading from the burning ray | |
| Helpless wretches sold to toil, | |
| Or the ruthless native’s way, | |
| Bent on slaughter, blood, and spoil; | |
| Woods that ever verdant wave, | 15 |
| I leave the tyrant and the slave; | |
| Give me the groves that lofty brave | |
| The storms by Castle-Gordon. | |
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| Wildly here, without control, | |
| Nature reigns and rules the whole; | 20 |
| In that sober, pensive mood, | |
| Dearest to the feeling soul, | |
| She plants the forest, pours the flood. | |
| Life’s poor day I ’ll musing rave, | |
| And find at night a sheltering cave, | 25 |
| Where waters flow and wildwoods wave, | |
| By bonny Castle-Gordon. | | | | |
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