Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Salisbury | | Salisbury Cathedral | | William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) |
| | | HERE stood the city of the dead; look round,— | |
| Dost thou not mark a visionary band, | |
| Druids and bards upon the summits stand, | |
| Of the majestic and time-hallowed mound? | |
| Hark! heard ye not at times the acclaiming word | 5 |
| Of harps, as when those bards, in white array, | |
| Hailed the ascending lord of light and day! | |
| Here o’er the clouds the first cathedral rose, | |
| Whose prelates now in yonder fane repose, | |
| Among the mighty of years passed away; | 10 |
| For there her latest seat Religion chose, | |
| There still to heaven ascends the holy lay, | |
| And never may those shrines in dust and silence close. | | | | |
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