Severn and Vaga, each old Cambria's pride,
Take different channels down Pumlumon's side.
Destined they seem a separate course to keep
Through rough uneasy windings to the deep.
For if by chance one turns across the plain
In haste to meet its fellow stream again,
Some envious hill or rude projecting rock
Repels its ardour; the repulsive shock
Turns it aside, and with impetuous force
Sends the stream foaming down a different course.
But when no longer obstacles delay
And each impediment is moved away,
Nature in all her varied charms is seen
To hail the union of her river-queen.
Through riven rocks her sportive eddies foam,
Where blue-eyed Naiads keep their hallowed home;
Through blooming orchards winds her mazy flood,
Through deep low vales whose sides are crowned with wood.
Past Tintern's arches and its mouldering walls
In eager haste her rapid current falls;
Nor does she stay, so great her haste would seem,
To show their image in her rippling stream.
Severn advances in majestic pride
To meet his lost, his long deserted bride.
Vaga well pleased his summons to attend
At Striguil's towers meets her former friend;
Mixed with his wave she seeks his oozy reign
And flows with him to their last home, the main.
Severn and Vaga, each old Cambria's pride,
Take different channels down Pumlumon's side.
Destined they seem a separate course to keep
Through rough uneasy windings to the deep.
For if by chance one turns across the plain
In haste to meet its fellow stream again,
Some envious hill or rude projecting rock
Repels its ardour; the repulsive shock
Turns it aside, and with impetuous force
Sends the stream foaming down a different course.
But when no longer obstacles delay
And each impediment is moved away,
Nature in all her varied charms is seen
To hail the union of her river-queen.
Through riven rocks her sportive eddies foam,
Where blue-eyed Naiads keep their hallowed home;
Through blooming orchards winds her mazy flood,
Through deep low vales whose sides are crowned with wood.
Past Tintern's arches and its mouldering walls
In eager haste her rapid current falls;
Nor does she stay, so great her haste would seem,
To show their image in her rippling stream.
Severn advances in majestic pride
To meet his lost, his long deserted bride.
Vaga well pleased his summons to attend
At Striguil's towers meets her former friend;
Mixed with his wave she seeks his oozy reign
And flows with him to their last home, the main.
Take different channels down Pumlumon's side.
Destined they seem a separate course to keep
Through rough uneasy windings to the deep.
For if by chance one turns across the plain
In haste to meet its fellow stream again,
Some envious hill or rude projecting rock
Repels its ardour; the repulsive shock
Turns it aside, and with impetuous force
Sends the stream foaming down a different course.
But when no longer obstacles delay
And each impediment is moved away,
Nature in all her varied charms is seen
To hail the union of her river-queen.
Through riven rocks her sportive eddies foam,
Where blue-eyed Naiads keep their hallowed home;
Through blooming orchards winds her mazy flood,
Through deep low vales whose sides are crowned with wood.
Past Tintern's arches and its mouldering walls
In eager haste her rapid current falls;
Nor does she stay, so great her haste would seem,
To show their image in her rippling stream.
Severn advances in majestic pride
To meet his lost, his long deserted bride.
Vaga well pleased his summons to attend
At Striguil's towers meets her former friend;
Mixed with his wave she seeks his oozy reign
And flows with him to their last home, the main.
Severn and Vaga, each old Cambria's pride,
Take different channels down Pumlumon's side.
Destined they seem a separate course to keep
Through rough uneasy windings to the deep.
For if by chance one turns across the plain
In haste to meet its fellow stream again,
Some envious hill or rude projecting rock
Repels its ardour; the repulsive shock
Turns it aside, and with impetuous force
Sends the stream foaming down a different course.
But when no longer obstacles delay
And each impediment is moved away,
Nature in all her varied charms is seen
To hail the union of her river-queen.
Through riven rocks her sportive eddies foam,
Where blue-eyed Naiads keep their hallowed home;
Through blooming orchards winds her mazy flood,
Through deep low vales whose sides are crowned with wood.
Past Tintern's arches and its mouldering walls
In eager haste her rapid current falls;
Nor does she stay, so great her haste would seem,
To show their image in her rippling stream.
Severn advances in majestic pride
To meet his lost, his long deserted bride.
Vaga well pleased his summons to attend
At Striguil's towers meets her former friend;
Mixed with his wave she seeks his oozy reign
And flows with him to their last home, the main.