Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Grasmere | | Wordsworth’s Grave | | James Payn (1830–1898) |
| | | THE ROTHAY’S stream is running near, | |
| Its voice is very glad and clear, | |
| The voice that was to him so dear; | |
| But the poet doth not hear. | |
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| All around his dwelling rise, | 5 |
| With their gray heads in the skies, | |
| The noble hills that made him wise; | |
| But he doth not ope his eyes. | |
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| From the little church the hum | |
| Of his old friends’ prayers doth come, | 10 |
| As is most fit, unto his tomb; | |
| But the godlike lips are dumb. | |
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| What and if he deaf doth lie? | |
| What and if he ope not eye? | |
| If death that tuneful tongue doth tie? | 15 |
| With God and us such ne’er can die. | | | | |
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