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Yarrow Unvisited
(William Wordsworth)

From Stirling castle we had seen
The mazy Forth unravelled;
Had trod the banks of Clyde, and Tay,
And with the Tweed had travelled;
And when we came to Clovenford,
Then said my "winsome Marrow ,"
"Whate'er betide, we'll turn aside,
And see the Braes of Yarrow."
"Let Yarrow folk, frae Selkirk town,
Who have been buying, selling,
Go back to Yarrow, 'tis their own;
Each maiden to her dwelling!
On Yarrow's banks let her herons feed,
Hares couch, and rabbits burrow!
But we will downward with the Tweed
Nor turn aside to Yarrow.

"There's Galla Water, Leader Haughs,
Both lying right before us;
And Dryborough, where with chiming Tweed
The lintwhites sing in chorus;
There's pleasant Tiviot-dale, a land
Made blithe with plough and harrow:
Why throw away a needful day
To go in search of Yarrow?

"What's Yarrow but a river bare,
That glides the dark hills under?
There are a thousand such elsewhere
As worthy of your wonder."
--Strange words they seemed of slight and scorn;
My True-love sighed for sorrow;
And looked me in the face, to think
I thus could speak of Yarrow!

"Oh! green," said I, "are Yarrow's holms,
And sweet is Yarrow flowing!
Fair hangs the apple frae the rock,
But we will leave it growing.
O'er hilly path, and open Strath,
We'll wander Scotland thorough;
But, though so near, we will not turn
Into the dale of Yarrow.

"Let beeves and home-bred kine partake
The sweets of Burn-mill meadow,
The swan on still St. Mary's Lake
Float double, swan and shadow!
We will not see them; will not go,
To-day, nor yet to-morrow;
Enough if in our hearts we know
There's such a place as Yarrow.

"Be Yarrow stream unseen, unknown!
It must, or we shall rue it:
We have a vision of our own;
Ah! why should we undo it?
The treasured dreams of times long past,
We'll keep them, winsome Marrow!
For when we'er there, although 'tis fair,
'Twill be another Yarrow!

"If Care with freezing years should come,
And wandering seem but folly,--
Should we be loth to stir from home,
And yet be melancholy;
Should life be dull, and spirits low,
'Twill soothe us in our sorrow,
That earth has something yet to show,
The bonny holms of Yarrow!"


Poems/ Poetry / Quotations by William Wordsworth
 An Evening Walk, Addressed To A Young Lady | Birth Of Love, The | Childless Father, The | Composed During a Storm | England, 1802 I | England, 1802 V | "She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways" | "Surprised by Joy--Impatient as the Wind" | "'Tis Said, That Some Have Died For Love" | A Night-Piece | A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal | Daffodils | Evening on Calais Beach | Expostulation and Reply | Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg | For The Spot Where The Hermitage Stood on St. Herbert's Island, Derwentwater. | Her Eyes are Wild | I Know an Old Man Constrained to Dwell | Inscriptions Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone | Kitten And Falling Leaves, The | Lament Of Mary Queen Of Scots | Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey | Lines Written In Early Spring | Lucy i | Lucy iii | Most Sweet it is | My Heart Leaps Up | Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room | Oak and The Broom, The: A Pastoral Poem | Ode to Duty | Perfect Woman | Resolution and Independence | Scorn Not the Sonnet | She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways | Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman | Solitary Reaper, The | Sparrow's Nest, The | Stanzas | Surprised by Joy | French Revolution as it appeared to Enthusiasts, The | Power of Armies Is a Visible Thing, The | Prelude, The - (Book 1) | Primrose of the Rock, The | Two April Mornings, The | Sun Has Long Been Set, The | Sonnet, The (ii) | Shepherd Looking Eastward Softly Said, The | To M.H. | To The Daisy (third poem) | Valedictory Sonnet to the River Duddon | Written in London. September, 1802 | Yarrow Unvisited | Yarrow Visited |


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