English Poetry III: From Tennyson to Whitman.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 632. In the Valley of Cauteretz |
| | | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) |
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| ALL along the valley, stream that flashest white, | |
| Deepening thy voice with the deepening of the night, | |
| All along the valley, where thy waters flow, | |
| I walked with one I loved two and thirty years ago. | |
| All along the valley while I walked to-day, | 5 |
| The two and thirty years were a mist that rolls away; | |
| For all along the valley, down thy rocky bed, | |
| Thy living voice to me was as the voice of the dead, | |
| And all along the valley, by rock and cave and tree, | |
| The voice of the dead was a living voice to me. | 10 |
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