Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79.

Crawfurdland

Farewell to Crawfurdland

By John Ramsay (b. 1802)

THOU dark stream slow wending thy deep rocky way,

Ye gray towers that rise o’er the daffodil brae,

I ’ve viewed you with pleasure, but now must with pain—

Farewell! for I never may see you again.

Ye woods where in life’s gladsome morning I strayed,

When all was in sunshine and beauty arrayed;

That dream has departed, how fleeting and vain—

Farewell! for I never may see you again.

O’er moss and o’er moorland my path soon shall be,

The cloud-covered mountain and wide stormy sea,

Your beauties will gladden some happier swain—

Farewell! for I never may see you again.