Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79.
Lammermoor
By Lady John Scott (Alicia Ann Spottiswoode) (1810–1900)O
Would I could feel once more
The cold north-wind, the wintry blast,
That sweeps thy mountains o’er.
Would I could see thy drifted snow
Deep, deep in cleuch and glen,
And hear the scream of the wild birds,
And was free on thy hills again!
I weary day by day
For the music of thy many streams
In the birchwoods far away!
From all I love they banish me,
But my thoughts they cannot chain;
And they bear me back, wild Lammermoor!
To thy distant hills again!