Oxford, since late I left thy peaceful shore,
Much I regret thy domes with turrets crown’d,
Thy crested walls with twining ivy bound,
Thy Gothic fanes, dim isles, and cloysters hoar,
And treasur’d rolls of Wisdom’s ancient lore;
Nor less thy varying bells, which hourly sound
In pensive chime, or ring in lively round,
Or toll in the slow Curfeu’s solemn roar;
Much too thy moonlight walks, and musings grave
Mid silent shades of high-embowering trees,
And much thy Sister-Streams, whose willows wave
In whispering cadence to the evening breeze;
But most those Friends, whose much-lov’d converse gave
Thy gentle charms a tenfold power to please.
In days of old, ere charm’d at length to rest
Stern Chivalry her idle spear uphung,
Sweet mid loud arms the Minstrel’s music rung;
In each proud castle, at the gorgeous feast,
Mix’d with bold Chiefs he sat, an honour’d guest;
Cheer’d with the genial rites, his lyre he strung,
War, Love, the Wizard, and the Fay he sung,
And fir’d with rapture each impassion’d breast:
Such were the strains, which in her livelier prime
Bright Fancy pour’d; but ah! they’re heard no more!
Yet is not Genius dead: the song sublime
Might burst in tides as copious as of yore;
But WANT, grim Monster, checks the raging rhyme,
And damps the Poet’s wing outstretch’d to soar.
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