Flow on for ever, Yarrow Stream! 105
Fulfil thy pensive duty,
Well pleased that future Bards should chant
For simple hearts thy beauty;
To dream-light dear while yet unseen,
Dear to the common sunshine, 110
And dearer still, as now I feel,
To memory's shadowy moonshine!
FOOTNOTES:
[690] Wordsworth arrived at Abbotsford with his daughter to say farewell to Scott on the 21st September 1831. "On the 22nd," says Mr. Lockhart, "these two great poets, who had through life loved each other well, and in spite of very different theories as to art, appreciated each other's genius more justly than infirm spirits ever did either of them, spent the morning together in a visit to Newark. Hence the last of the three poems by which Wordsworth has connected his name to all time with the most romantic of Scottish streams."—Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, vol. x. ch. lxxx. p. 104.
Compare the note to Musings near Aquapendente, in the Poems of the Italian Tour of 1837.—Ed.
[691] Compare Tennyson's Brook, and Burns's Epistle to William Simpson, Ochiltree, stanza 15.—Ed.
[692] 1837.
... waylay ... 1835.
[693] 1837.
Where'er thy path ... 1835.