Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Cambridge | | Inside of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge: The Same | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | WHAT awful pérspective! while from our sight | |
| With gradual stealth the lateral windows hide | |
| Their portraitures, their stone-work glimmers, dyed | |
| In the soft checkerings of a sleepy light. | |
| Martyr, or king, or sainted Eremite, | 5 |
| Whoe’er ye be, that thus, yourselves unseen, | |
| Imbue your prison-bars with solemn sheen, | |
| Shine on, until ye fade with coining night!— | |
| But, from the arms of silence,—list! O, list!— | |
| The music bursteth into second life; | 10 |
| The notes luxuriate, every stone is kissed | |
| By sound, or ghost of sound, in mazy strife; | |
| Heart-thrilling strains, that cast, before the eye | |
| Of the devout, a veil of ecstasy! | | | | |
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