The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough/Volume 2/Written on a Bridge

by Arthur Hugh Clough

WRITTEN ON A BRIDGE.

When soft September brings again

To yonder gorse its golden glow,
And Snowdon sends its autumn rain
To bid thy current livelier flow;
Amid that ashen foliage light
When scarlet beads are glistering bright,
While alder boughs unchanged are seen
In summer livery of green;
When clouds before the cooler breeze
Are flying, white and large; with these
Returning, so may I return,
And find thee changeless, Pont-y-wern.
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