Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Glastonbury | | Glastonbury | | Henry Alford (1810–1871) |
| | | ON thy green marge, thou vale of Avalon, | |
| Not for that thou art crowned with ancient towers | |
| And shafts and clustered pillars many an one, | |
| Love I to dream away the sunny hours; | |
| Not for that here in charméd slumber lie | 5 |
| The holy relics of that British king | |
| Who was the flower of knightly chivalry, | |
| Do I stand blest past power of uttering;— | |
| But for that on thy cowslip-sprinkled sod | |
| Alit of old the olive-bearing bird, | 10 |
| Meek messenger of purchased peace with God; | |
| And the first hymns that Britain ever heard | |
| Arose, the low preluding melodies | |
| To the sweetest anthem that hath reached the skies. | | | | |
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