Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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[Amidst the darkness of green woods it stood]
Amidst the darkness of green woods it stood,A ruin hoar, while many an antique mound
Near it, proclaimed (for flowers there still were found)
That gardens there had flourished, now i' the wood
It looked a dreary thing!—the solitude
Seem'd burthened by its presence—greenly round
Those walls the o'ermantling ivy's wild wreathes wound
Caressingly, while all the place seemed strewed
With ancient memories—high chivalrous dreams
Weighed on the blue transparent air—that shone
Serenely there—heroic oldest themes
Leapt to the thought and fancies of the gone
And buried years, till all the kindling beams
Of morning seemed to smile, around the past alone!
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