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 | The Poetical Works of (Richard Monckton Milnes) Lord Houghton |  |
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ON REVISITING CAMBRIDGE,
AFTER A LONG ABSENCE ON THE CONTINENT.
Nor few, nor poor in beauty, my resortsIn foreign climes,—nor negligent or dull
My observation, but these long-left courts
I still find beautiful, most beautiful!
And fairly are they more so than before;
For to my eye, fresh from a southern land,
They wear the colouring of the scenes of yore,
And the old Faith that made them here to stand.
I paint the very students as they were,
Not the men-children of these forward days,
But mild-eyed boys just risen from their knees,
While, proud as angels of their holy care,
Following the symbol-vested priest, they raise
The full response of antique litanies.
| The Poetical Works of (Richard Monckton Milnes) Lord Houghton | |