Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Portugal: Tagus (Tejo), the River | | The Tagus | | Francisco Rodriguez Lobo (1580–1622) |
| | Translated by John Adamson
HOW, lovely Tagus! different to our view | |
| Our past and present states do now appear,— | |
| Muddy the stream, which I have seen so clear, | |
| And sad the breast, which you contented knew. | |
| Thy banks o’erflowed, through unresisting plains, | 5 |
| Thy waters stray by fitful tempests driven,— | |
| Lost is to me the object which had given | |
| A life of pleasures or a life of pains. | |
| As thus our sorrows such resemblance bear, | |
| May we of joy an equal cup partake! | 10 |
| But ah, what favoring power to me can make | |
| Our fates alike,—for spring with soothing air | |
| Shall to its former state thy stream restore; | |
| Whilst bid, if I again may be as heretofore. | | | | |
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