Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79.
Sir Reginald
By Mary Russell Mitford (17871855)’T
On the glittering waves of the rapid Durance,
Where Sir Reginald’s castle its broad shadow throws
O’er the bay and the linden, the cypress and rose.
And in that rosy bower a lady so bright
Sits telling her beads for her own absent knight,
Whilst her little son plays round the fond mother’s knee,
And the wandering stock-dove is scared by his glee.
On the glittering waves of the rapid Durance,
Where Sir Reginald’s castle its broad shadow throws
O’er the bay and the linden, the cypress and rose.
But the pitiless spoiler is master there,
For gone is the lady, and gone the young heir;
The good knight hath perished beyond the salt sea,
And they, like the stock-dove, poor wanderers be.