Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Lowther | | Lowther | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | LOWTHER! in thy majestic pile are seen | |
| Cathedral pomp and grace, in apt accord | |
| With the baronial castle’s sterner mien: | |
| Union significant of God adored, | |
| And charters won and guarded by the sword | 5 |
| Of ancient honor; whence that goodly state | |
| Of polity which wise men venerate, | |
| And will maintain, if God his help afford. | |
| Hourly the democratic torrent swells; | |
| For airy promises and hopes suborned | 10 |
| The strength of backward-looking thoughts is scorned. | |
| Fall if ye must, ye towers and pinnacles, | |
| With what ye symbolize; authentic story | |
| Will say ye disappeared with England’s glory! | | | | |
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