Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Hardmoor | | Hardmoor | | Cora Kennedy Aitken |
| | | O MIGHTY Master, who shall tread this heath | |
| Without mysterious visions,—looking back | |
| To see the witches dancing on his track | |
| With shrivelled limbs, and voice and eyes of death? | |
| They beckon with their palsied hands beneath | 5 |
| The stunted trees, their torn locks shake among | |
| The dropping branches. Thin and black along | |
| The shivering grass the heather holds its breath | |
| For fear, and cannot burn and blossom when | |
| Night after night such awful sights it sees; | 10 |
| The wan, worn moonlight fainting on the trees, | |
| And life struck dumb till daylight breathes again! | |
| And even the daylight is bewildered here | |
| Where all things have such consciousness of fear. | | | | |
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