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HELEN'S TOWER |
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HELEN'S TOWER
(ERECTED BY THE MARQUIS OF DUFFERIN IN MEMORY OF HIS MOTHER, AND CELEBRATED BY TENNYSON AND BROWNING)
Love low in earth thy sure foundation laid;Song thy aspiring head with honour crowned;
And the green wood rejoicing came around;
And the broad sea was thy bright mirror made.
Yet not yon restless blue or slumbering shade,
Or Scotland's coast in distant purple drowned,
Or various Erin's many-tinctured ground,—
Thousandfold beauty to one glance displayed—
Not these, or laurelled lyres, that, as of old
The stars of morning, pealed thy natal lay,
Exalt thee most, but choicest praise is thine;
That we who this fair Paradise behold
Would yield for thy rude granite, scarred with spray,
Prospect of earth and sky, and sea divine.
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