Of Lichfield, clustering round its Minster Pool

That, like a fragment of the sky on earth,

Reflected its two bridges, gnarled old trees,

Half-timbered walls; a bare-legged child at play

Upon its brink; two clouds like floating swans,

Two swans like small white clouds; a boy that rode

A big brown cart-horse lazily jingling by;

And the cathedral, like a three-spired crown,

Set on its northern bank.

Then, from the west,