Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Seaton Vale | | The Rose of Seaton Vale | | John Imlah (1799–1846) |
| | | A BONNIE Rose bloomed wild and fair, | |
| As sweet a bud, I trow, | |
| As ever breathed the morning air, | |
| Or drank the evening dew. | |
| A Zephyr loved the blushing flower, | 5 |
| With sigh and fond love-tale; | |
| It wooed within its briery bower | |
| The Rose of Seaton Vale. | |
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| With wakening kiss the Zephyr pressed | |
| This bud at morning light; | 10 |
| At noon it fanned its glowing breast, | |
| And nestled there at night. | |
| But other flowers sprung up thereby, | |
| And lured the roving gale; | |
| The Zephyr left to droop and die | 15 |
| The Rose of Seaton Vale. | |
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| A matchless maiden dwelt by Don, | |
| Loved by as fair a youth; | |
| Long had their young hearts throbbed as one | |
| Wi’ tenderness and truth. | 20 |
| Thy warmest tear, soft Pity, pour,— | |
| For Ellen’s type and tale | |
| Are in that sweet, ill-fated flower, | |
| The Rose of Seaton Vale. | | | | |
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