Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Gordale | | Gordale | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | AT early dawn, or rather when the air | |
| Glimmers with fading light, and shadowy eve | |
| Is busiest to confer and to bereave; | |
| Then, pensive votary! let thy feet repair | |
| To Gordale chasm, terrific as the lair | 5 |
| Where the young lions couch; for so, by leave | |
| Of the propitious hour, thou mayst perceive | |
| The local deity, with oozy hair | |
| And mineral crown, beside his jagged urn | |
| Recumbent: him them mayst behold, who hides | 10 |
| His lineaments by day, yet there presides, | |
| Teaching the docile waters how to turn, | |
| Or, if need be, impediment to spurn, | |
| And force their passage to the salt-sea tides! | | | | |
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