Then the mad acclamations; bells of shrine

And monastery on the hills; the sweep

Of robes prelatical, the cavalcade

Of gorgeous nobles into Santa Cruz;

The blare of trumpets, and the lanterns strung

Yellow beneath the moon; the beggar throngs;

The maskers down the lanes; the nightingales

And river-songs of students wafted far

Across Mondego’s Hills of Loneliness

And Meditation where Coimbra slept.