Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Harrow-on-the-Hill | | Harrow | | John Bruce Norton (1815–1883) |
| | | IF some good fairy granted me to play | |
| A chosen portion of my life again, | |
| I would not ask an Oxford hour. The vain | |
| Attempt to ape the follies of the day, | |
| How soon it palls; while ever fresh and gay | 5 |
| Riseth the vision of the school-boy train | |
| Who shouted, thoughtless, on dear Harrow’s plain, | |
| And clomb the hill when eve was growing gray. | |
| O for the careless days, the dreamless nights; | |
| The broken bounds, the plunge into the pool; | 10 |
| The elastic feet that ne’er the leap refuse; | |
| The summer games, the winter’s mimicked fights: | |
| O for the guileless friendships formed at school, | |
| The first shy whispers of the natural muse! | | | | |
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