Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Morwenstow | | The Well of St. John | | Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875) |
| | On Morwenstow Glebe
THEY dreamed not in old Hebron, when the sound | |
| Went through the city, that the promised son | |
| Was born to Zachary, and his name was John,— | |
| They little thought that here in this far ground, | |
| Beside the Severn sea, that Hebrew child | 5 |
| Would be a cherished memory of the wild; | |
| Here, where the pulses of the ocean bound | |
| Whole centuries away, while one meek cell, | |
| Built by the fathers o’er a lonely well, | |
| Still breathes the Baptist’s sweet remembrance round: | 10 |
| A spring of silent waters with his name, | |
| That from the angel’s voice in music came, | |
| Here in the wilderness so faithful found, | |
| It freshens to this day the Levite’s grassy mound. | | | | |
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