Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Cambridge | | Inside of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | TAX not the royal saint with vain expense, | |
| With ill-matched aims the architect who planned— | |
| Albeit laboring for a scanty band | |
| Of white-robed scholars only—this immense | |
| And glorious work of fine intelligence! | 5 |
| Give all thou canst: high Heaven rejects the lore | |
| Of nicely-calculated less or more; | |
| So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense | |
| These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof | |
| Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, | 10 |
| Where light and shade repose, where music dwells | |
| Lingering, and wandering on as loth to die; | |
| Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof | |
| That they were born for immortality. | | | | |
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