Literature and Nature
Samuel Waddington. Written for the present collection.
’Mid Cambrian heights around Dolgelly vale,
What time we scaled great Cader’s rugged pile,
Or loitered idly where still meadows smile
Beside the Mawddach-stream, or far Cynfael—
Nor tome, nor rhythmic page, nor pastoral tale,
Our summer-sated senses would beguile;
Or lull our ears to melody, the while
The voiceful rill ran lilting down the dale.
In London town once more—behold, once more
The old delight returns! ’Mid heights how vast,
In Milton’s verse, through what dim paths we wind;
How Keats’s canvas glows, and Wordsworth’s lore,
As tarn or torrent pure, by none surpass’d,
Sheds light and love—unfathomed, undefined.