Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Duddon, the River | | The Stepping-Stones | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | THE STRUGGLING rill insensibly is grown | |
| Into a brook of loud and stately march, | |
| Crossed ever and anon by plank or arch; | |
| And, for like use, lo! what might seem a zone | |
| Chosen for ornament,—stone matched with stone | 5 |
| In studied symmetry, with interspace | |
| For the clear waters to pursue their race | |
| Without restraint. How swiftly have they flown, | |
| Succeeding,—still succeeding! Here the child | |
| Puts, when the high-swollen flood runs fierce and wild, | 10 |
| His budding courage to the proof; and here | |
| Declining manhood learns to note the sly | |
| And sure encroachments of infirmity, | |
| Thinking how fast time runs, life’s end how near! | | | | |
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