Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Wales: Bangor | | Monastery of Old Bangor | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | THE OPPRESSION of the tumult, wrath and scorn, | |
| The tribulation, and the gleaming blades,— | |
| Such is the impetuous spirit that pervades | |
| The song of Taliesin; ours shall mourn | |
| The unarmed host who by their prayers would turn | 5 |
| The sword from Bangor’s walls, and guard the store | |
| Of aboriginal and Roman lore, | |
| And Christian monuments, that now must burn | |
| To senseless ashes. Mark! how all things swerve | |
| From their known course, or vanish like a dream; | 10 |
| Another language spreads from coast to coast; | |
| Only perchance some melancholy stream | |
| And some indignant hills old names preserve, | |
| When laws and creeds and people all are lost! | | | | |
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