Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Penrith | | Hart’s-Horn Tree, near Penrith | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | HERE stood an oak, that long had borne affixed | |
| To his huge trunk, or, with more subtle art, | |
| Among its withering topmost branches mixed, | |
| The palmy antlers of a hunted hart, | |
| Whom the dog Hercules pursued,—his part | 5 |
| Each desperately sustaining, till at last | |
| Both sank and died, the life-veins of the chased | |
| And chaser bursting here with one dire smart. | |
| Mutual the victory, mutual the defeat! | |
| High was the trophy hung with pitiless pride; | 10 |
| Say, rather, with that generous sympathy | |
| That wants not, even in rudest breasts, a seat; | |
| And, for this feeling’s sake, let no one chide | |
| Verse that would guard thy memory, HART’S-HORN TREE! | | | | |
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