Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Silbury Hill | | For a Tablet at Silbury Hill | | Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
| | | THIS mound, in some remote and dateless day | |
| Reared o’er a chieftain of the age of hills, | |
| May here detain thee, traveller! from thy road | |
| Not idly lingering. In his narrow house | |
| Some warrior sleeps below, whose gallant deeds | 5 |
| Haply at many a solemn festival | |
| The scald hath sung; but perished is the song | |
| Of praise, as o’er these bleak and barren downs | |
| The wind that passes and is heard no more. | |
| Go, traveller, and remember, when the pomp | 10 |
| Of earthly glory fades, that one good deed, | |
| Unseen, unheard, unnoted by mankind, | |
| Lives in the eternal register of heaven. | | | | |
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