Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Rivers of Scotland | | Rivers of Scotland | | William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649) |
| | (From The River of Forth Feasting)
AND you, my nymphs, rise from your moist repair, | |
| Strew all your springs and grots with lilies fair: | |
| Some swiftest-footed get her hence and pray | |
| Our floods and lakes come keep this holiday; | |
| Whate’er beneath Albania’s hills do run, | 5 |
| Which see the rising or the setting sun, | |
| Which drink stern Grampius’ mists, or Ochills’ snows; | |
| Stone-rolling Tay, Tyne tortoise-like that flows, | |
| The pearly Don, the Dees, the fertile Spey, | |
| Wild Nevern which doth see our longest day, | 10 |
| Ness smoking sulphur, Leave with mountains crowned, | |
| Strange Lomond for his floating isles renowned, | |
| The Irish Rian, Ken, the silver Ayr, | |
| The snaky Dun, the Ore with rushy hair, | |
| The crystal-streaming Nid, loud-bellowing Clyde, | 15 |
| Tweed, which no more our kingdoms shall divide, | |
| Rank-swelling Annan, Lid with curled streams, | |
| The Esks, the Solway where they lose their names: | |
| To every one proclaim our joys and feasts, | |
| Our triumphs, bid all come, and be our guests; | 20 |
| And as they meet in Neptune’s azure hall, | |
| Bid them bid sea-gods keep this festival. | | | | |
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