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| "A View near Greylock, Berkshire Hills, Mass, c1906" |
Hawthorne in Berkshire
Mountains and valleys! dear ye are to me:
Your streams wild-wandering, ever-tranquil lakes,
And forests that make murmur like the sea;
And this keen air that from the hurt soul takes
Its pain and languor:-Doubly dear ye are
For many a lofty memory that throws
A splendor on these heights.-'Neath you low star,
That like a dewdrop melts in heaven's rose,
Dwelt once a starry spirit; there he smote
Life from the living hills; a little while
He rested from the raging of the world.
This Brook of Shadows, whose dark waters purled
Solace to his deep mind, it felt his smile-
Haunted, and melancholy, and remote.
~Richard Watson Gilder, 1897
Photo: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Photograph Collection, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994006026/PP/
Poem: The Century; Volume 55; Issue 2; Dec 1897
I think this is Peck's brook, the dam near Enterprise Street/Fisk Road in Adams.
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