Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | New Forest | | For a Monument in the New Forest | | Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
| | | THIS is the place where William’s kingly power | |
| Did from their poor and peaceful homes expel, | |
| Unfriended, desolate, and shelterless, | |
| The inhabitants of all the fertile tract | |
| Far as these wilds extend. He levelled down | 5 |
| Their little cottages, he bade their fields | |
| Lie waste, and forested the land, that so | |
| More royally might he pursue his sports. | |
| If that thine heart be human, Passenger! | |
| Sure it will swell within thee, and thy lips | 10 |
| Will mutter curses on him. Think thou then | |
| What cities flame, what hosts unsepulchred | |
| Pollute the passing wind, when raging Power | |
| Drives on his bloodhounds to the chase of Man; | |
| And, as thy thoughts anticipate that day | 15 |
| When God shall judge aright, in charity | |
| Pray for the wicked rulers of mankind. | | | | |
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