A Roadside Harp: A Book of Verses

by Louise Imogen Guiney

IMPERIAL Iffley, Cumnor bowered in green,

And Templar Sandford in the boatman’s call,

And sweet-belled Appleton, and Wytham wall

That doth upon adoring ivies lean;

Meek Binsey; Dorchester where streams convene

Bidding on graves her solemn shadow fall;

Clear Cassington that soars perpetual;

Holton and Hampton, and ye towers between:

If one of all in your sad courts that come,

Belovèd and disparted! be your own,