Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Clyde, the River | | The Vale of Clyde | | John Struthers (1776–1853) |
| | | ADMIRING nature’s simple charms, | |
| I left my humble home, | |
| Awhile my country’s peaceful plain | |
| With pilgrim step to roam: | |
| I marked the leafy summer wave | 5 |
| On flowing Irvine’s side, | |
| But richer far ’s the robe she wears | |
| Within the vale of Clyde. | |
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| I roamed the braes of bonnie Doon, | |
| The winding banks of Ayr, | 10 |
| Where flutters many a small bird gay, | |
| Blooms many a floweret fair; | |
| But dearer far to me the stem | |
| That once was Calder’s pride, | |
| And blossoms now, the fairest flower, | 15 |
| Within the vale of Clyde. | |
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| Avaunt! thou life-repressing north! | |
| Ye withering east-winds too! | |
| But come, thou all-reviving west, | |
| Breathe soft thy genial dew; | 20 |
| Until at length, in peaceful age, | |
| This lovely floweret shed | |
| Its last green leaf upon my tomb, | |
| Within the vale of Clyde. | | | | |
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