Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | New England: Concord, the River | | Two Rivers | | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) |
| | | THY summer voice, Musketaquit, | |
| Repeats the music of the rain; | |
| But sweeter rivers pulsing flit | |
| Through thee, as thou through Concord Plain. | |
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| Thou in thy narrow banks art pent: | 5 |
| The stream I love unbounded goes | |
| Through flood and sea and firmament; | |
| Through light, through life, it forward flows. | |
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| I see the inundation sweet, | |
| I hear the spending of the stream | 10 |
| Through years, through men, through nature fleet, | |
| Through love and thought, through power and dream. | |
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| Musketaquit, a goblin strong, | |
| Of shard and flint makes jewels gay; | |
| They lose their grief who hear his song, | 15 |
| And where he winds is the day of day. | |
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| So forth and brighter fares my stream,— | |
| Who drink it shall not thirst again; | |
| No darkness stains its equal gleam, | |
| And ages drop in it like rain. | 20 | | | |
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