Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Ulpha | | The Kirk of Ulpha | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | THE KIRK of Ulpha to the pilgrim’s eye | |
| Is welcome as a star, that doth present | |
| Its shining forehead through the peaceful rent | |
| Of a black cloud diffused o’er half the sky: | |
| Or as a fruitful palm-tree towering high | 5 |
| O’er the parched waste beside an Arab’s tent; | |
| Or the Indian tree whose branches, downward bent, | |
| Take root again, a boundless canopy. | |
| How sweet were leisure! could it yield no more | |
| Than ’mid that wave-washed Churchyard to recline, | 10 |
| From pastoral graves extracting thoughts divine; | |
| Or there to pace, and mark the summits hoar | |
| Of distant moonlit mountains faintly shine, | |
| Soothed by the unseen River’s gentle roar. | | | | |
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