Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. Scotland: Vols. VIVIII. 187679. | | Edinburgh | Edinburgh | William Drummond of Hawthornden (15851649) |
| INSTALLED on hills, her head near starry bowers, | |
Shines Edinburgh, proud of protecting powers. | |
Justice defends her heart; Religion east | |
With temples, Mars with towers doth guard the west; | |
Fresh nymphs and Ceres serving, wait upon her, | 5 |
And Thetis tributary doth her honor. | |
The sea doth Venice shake, Rome Tiber beats, | |
Whilst she but scorns her vassal waters threats. | |
For sceptres nowhere stands a town more fit, | |
Nor place where town worlds queen may fairer sit. | 10 |
But this thy praise is, above all, most brave, | |
No man did eer defame thee but a slave. | | | |
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