Or anthem notes, wherever in archèd quires

The unheeded music twires,

And, centuries by, to the stony shade

Flies following and to fade:

Or a homely prattle of children’s voices gay

’Mong garden joys at play:

Or a sundown chaunting of solemn rooks:

Or memory of my books,

Which hold the words that poets in many a tongue

To the irksome world have sung: