Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.
Twilight on TweedAndrew Lang (18441912)
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Beyond the purple plain,
The kind remember’d melody
Of Tweed once more again.
Dear voice from the old years,
Thy distant music lulls and stills,
And moves to quiet tears.
Fleets through the dusky land;
Where Scott, come home to die, has stood,
My feet returning stand.
The Border waters flow;
The air is full of ballad notes,
Borne out of long ago.
Sweet through a boy’s day-dream,
While trout below the blossom’d tree
Flash’d in the golden stream.
Twilight, and Tweed, and Eildon Hill,
Fair and too fair you be;
You tell me that the voice is still
That should have welcomed me.