Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Muston | | The Streamlet | | George Crabbe (1754–1832) |
| | (From The Borough)
CAN scenes like these withdraw thee from thy wood | |
| Thy upland forest or thy valley’s flood? | |
| Seek then thy garden’s shrubby bound, and look, | |
| As it steals by, upon the bordering brook; | |
| That winding streamlet, limpid, lingering, slow, | 5 |
| Where the reeds whisper when the zephyrs blow; | |
| Where in the midst, upon her throne of green, | |
| Sits the large lily as the water’s queen; | |
| And makes the current, forced awhile to stay, | |
| Murmur and bubble as it shoots away. | 10 | | | |
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