Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Mull, the Island | | In the Isle of Mull | | Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886) |
| | | THE CLOUDS are gathering in their western dome, | |
| Deep-drenched with sunlight, as a fleece with dew, | |
| While I with baffled effort still pursue | |
| And track these waters toward their mountain-home, | |
| In vain—though cataract, and mimic foam, | 5 |
| And island-spots, round which the streamlet threw | |
| Its sister-arms, which joyed to meet anew, | |
| Have lured me on, and won me still to roam; | |
| Till now, coy nymph, unseen thy waters pass, | |
| Or faintly struggle through the twinkling grass,— | 10 |
| And I, thy founts unvisited, return. | |
| Is it that thou art revelling with thy peers? | |
| Or dost thou feed a solitary urn, | |
| Else unreplenished, with thine own sad tears? | | | | |
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