Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Isle of Man | | Tynwald Hill | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | ONCE on the top of Tynwald’s formal mound | |
| (Still marked with green turf circles narrowing | |
| Stage above stage) would sit this island’s king, | |
| The laws to promulgate, enrobed and crowned; | |
| While, compassing the little mount around, | 5 |
| Degrees and orders stood, each under each; | |
| Now, like to things within fate’s easiest reach, | |
| The power is merged, the pomp a grave has found. | |
| Off with yon cloud, old Snafell! that thine eye | |
| Over three realms may take its widest range; | 10 |
| And let, for them, thy fountains utter strange | |
| Voices, thy winds break forth in prophecy, | |
| If the whole state must suffer mortal change, | |
| Like Mona’s miniature of sovereignty. | | | | |
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