Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE RIVER CLWYD IN NORTH WALES, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS


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First Line: O cambrian river! With slow music gliding
Last Line: Brightly its waves may reach their parentdeep at last.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Clwyd (river), Wales; Spring; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen


O CAMBRIAN river! with slow music gliding
By pastoral hills, old woods, and ruined towers;
Now 'midst thy reeds and golden willows hiding,
Now gleaming forth by some rich bank of flowers;
Long flowed the current of my life's clear hours
Onward with thine, whose voice yet haunts my dream,
Tho' time and change, and other mightier powers,
Far from thy side have borne me. Thou, smooth stream!
Art winding still thy sunny meads along,
Murmuring to cottage and gray hall thy song,
Low, sweet, unchanged. My being's tide hath passed
Through rocks and storms; yet will I not complain,
If, thus wrought free and pure from earthly stain,
Brightly its waves may reach their parentdeep at last.





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