[DK] Waters (as Mr. Westall informs us in the letterpress prefixed to his admirable views) are invariably found to flow through these caverns.—W. W. 1819.


MALHAM COVE

Composed 1819.—Published 1819

One of the "Miscellaneous Sonnets."—Ed.

Was the aim frustrated by force or guile,

When giants scooped from out the rocky ground,

Tier under tier, this semicirque profound?

(Giants—the same who built in Erin's isle

That Causeway with incomparable toil!)—