Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79. | | | | Austria: Tepl, the River, Bohemia | | On the River Tepl | | Rowland E. Egerton-Warburton (1804–1891) |
| | | FRIENDLESS I came, but friendless now no more; | |
| Thy voice, sweet river, greets me, and I trace | |
| A smile of welcome in thy sparkling face, | |
| When early morn invites me to thy shore; | |
| Thy sunlit waters to fresh life restore | 5 |
| The fragrant flowers that gild the mountain’s base; | |
| Lulled by the rippling music of thy race, | |
| With tranquil happiness my heart runs o’er. | |
| The hues of heaven are mirrored in thy stream; | |
| O, teach me so to live that hope sublime, | 10 |
| From Heaven reflected, on my path may beam! | |
| Thy ceaseless current runs to reach the sea; | |
| Teach me in wisdom to redeem the time, | |
| Still hastening onward to Eternity. | | | | |
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