Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON REVISITING CAMBRIDGE, AFTER A LONG ABSENCE ON THE CONTINENT (1), by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES


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First Line: Nor few, nor poor in beauty, my resorts
Last Line: The full response of antique litanies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Cambridge University


NOR few, nor poor in beauty, my resorts
In foreign climes, -- nor negligent or dull
My observation, but these long-left courts
I still find beautiful, most beautiful!
And fairly are they more so than before;
For to my eye, fresh from a southern land,
They wear the colouring of the scenes of yore,
And the old Faith that made them here to stand.
I paint the very students as they were,
Not the men-children of these forward days,
But mild-eyed boys just risen from their knees,
While, proud as angels of their holy care,
Following the symbol-vested priest, they raise
The full response of antique litanies.





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