Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Tobias George Smollett. 17211771464. To Leven Water
PURE stream, in whose transparent wave | |
My youthful limbs I wont to lave; | |
No torrents stain thy limpid source, | |
No rocks impede thy dimpling course | |
Devolving from thy parent lake | 5 |
A charming maze thy waters make | |
By bowers of birch and groves of pine | |
And edges flower’d with eglantine. | |
Still on thy banks so gaily green | |
May numerous herds and flocks be seen, | 10 |
And lasses chanting o’er the pail, | |
And shepherds piping in the dale, | |
And ancient faith that knows no guile, | |
And industry embrown’d with toil, | |
And hearts resolved and hands prepared | 15 |
The blessings they enjoy to guard. |