Excerpt from The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets; Vaudracour and Julia; And Other Poems, to Which Is Annexed, a Topographical Description of the Country of the Lakes, in the North of England

Not envying shades which haply yet may throw

A grateful coolness round that rocky spring,

Bandusia, once responsive to the string

Of the Horatian lyre with babbling flow;

Careless of flowers that in perennial blow

Round the moist marge of Persian fountains cling;

Heedless of Alpine torrents thundering

Through icy portals radiant as heaven's bow;

I seek the birth-place of a native Stream. -

All hail ye mountains, hail thou morning light!

Better to breathe upon this aery height

Than pass in needless sleep from dream to dream;

Pure flow the verse, pure, vigorous, free, and bright

For Duddon, long lov'd Duddon, is my theme!

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