They follow Truth in some monastic tree,

Where breathe against their docile breasts, by night,

The scholar’s star, the star of sanctity.


V.
ON THE PRE-REFORMATION CHURCHES ABOUT OXFORD.

Imperial Iffley, Cumnor bowered in green,

And Templar Sandford in the boatman’s call,

And sweet-belled Appleton, and Marcham wall

That dost upon adoring ivies lean;