Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Duddon, the River | | To the River Duddon | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | CHILD of the clouds! remote from every taint | |
| Of sordid industry thy lot is cast; | |
| Thine are the honors of the lofty waste; | |
| Not seldom, when with heat the valleys faint, | |
| Thy handmaid Frost with spangled tissue quaint | 5 |
| Thy cradle decks;—to chant thy birth, thou hast | |
| No meaner poet than the whistling blast, | |
| And Desolation is thy patron-saint! | |
| She guards thee, ruthless power! who would not spare | |
| Those mighty forests, once the bison’s screen, | 10 |
| Where stalked the huge deer to his shaggy lair, | |
| Through paths and alleys roofed with sombre green, | |
| Thousands of years before the silent air | |
| Was pierced by whizzing shaft of hunter keen! | | | | |
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