| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | Glengariff, I | | By Sir Aubrey de Vere (1788–1846) |
| | | GAZING from each low bulwark of this bridge, | |
| How wonderful the contrast! Dark as night, | |
| Here, amid cliffs and woods, with headlong might | |
| The black stream whirls, through ferns and drooping sedge, | |
| ’Neath twisted roots moss-brown, and weedy ledge, | 5 |
| Gushing;—aloft, from yonder birch-clad height | |
| Leaps into air a cataract, snow-white; | |
| Falling to gulfs obscure. The mountain ridge, | |
| Like a grey Warder, guardian of the scene, | |
| Above the cloven gorge gloomily towers: | 10 |
| O’er the dim woods a gathering tempest lours; | |
| Save where athwart the moist leaves’ lucid green | |
| A sunbeam, glancing through disparted showers, | |
| Sparkles along the rill with diamond sheen! | | | | |
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