Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Fountain’s Abbey | | Fountain’s Abbey | | Ebenezer Elliott (1781–1849) |
| | | ABBEY! forever smiling pensively, | |
| How like a thing of Nature dost thou rise, | |
| Amid her loveliest works! as if the skies, | |
| Clouded with grief, were arched thy roof to be, | |
| And the tall trees were copied all from thee! | 5 |
| Mourning thy fortunes,—while the waters dim | |
| Flow like the memory of thy evening hymn; | |
| Beautiful in their sorrowing sympathy, | |
| As if they with a weeping sister wept, | |
| Winds name thy name! But thou, though sad, art calm, | 10 |
| And Time with thee his plighted troth hath kept; | |
| For harebells deck thy brow, and at thy feet, | |
| Where sleep the proud, the bee and redbreast meet, | |
| Mixing thy sighs with Nature’s lonely psalm. | | | | |
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