Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Oxford | | For a Monument at Oxford | | Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
| | | HERE Latimer and Ridley in the flames | |
| Bore witness to the truth. If thou hast walked | |
| Uprightly through the world, just thoughts of joy | |
| May fill thy breast in cóntemplating here | |
| Congenial virtue. But if thou hast swerved | 5 |
| From the strait path of even rectitude, | |
| Fearful in trying seasons to assert | |
| The better cause, or to forsake the worse | |
| Reluctant, when perchance therein enthralled | |
| Slave to false shame, O, thankfully receive | 10 |
| The sharp, compunctious motions that this spot | |
| May wake within thee, and be wise in time, | |
| And let the future for the past atone! | | | | |
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