Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Cadzow Castle | | Cadzow | | Henry Glassford Bell (1803–1874) |
| | | THE BIRDS are singing by Avon Bridge, | |
| The sky is blue o’er Chatelrault, | |
| And all through Cadzow’s wooded glades | |
| The softest airs of summer blow. | |
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| O birds that sing by Avon Bridge, | 5 |
| Why should your notes so richly flow? | |
| O tranquil sky of cloudless blue, | |
| Why shine so bright o’er Chatelrault? | |
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| O Avon! rolling gently down, | |
| Why keep’st thou that old tuneful tone? | 10 |
| Where is the voice so soft and low | |
| Whose music echoed back thy own? | |
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| O Cadzow! why this rustling pomp | |
| Of leafy boughs that wave so high? | |
| Where is the light that gleamed through all | 15 |
| Thy shadowy paths in days gone by? | |
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| O summer airs! why thus recall | |
| The sweeter breath, that seemed to bring | |
| The balmy dews of southern skies, | |
| And all the roses of the spring! | 20 | | | |
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