Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Kelvin Water | | To Kelvin Water | | James Cochrane |
| | | SEQUESTERED stream! I saw year after year | |
| The noxious town expanding, street on street, | |
| Blighting the rural charms of thy retreat, | |
| Where whispering lovers, no intruders near, | |
| Walked hand in hand; where oft with stealthy feet | 5 |
| I hied along thy banks at morn, to hear | |
| The small shrill wren the spring’s reveille beat: | |
| And as a bird, when robbed by driving sleet | |
| Or cruel imps of half its fledglings dear, | |
| Clings but the closer to the few still left, | 10 |
| So I to thee while one tree was uncleft; | |
| But every vestige of the forest gone, | |
| Like the same bird when reft of all her brood, | |
| Who pours her mournful ditty through the wood, | |
| I sing thy dirge far off, and all alone. | 15 | | | |
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