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SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED: 2. DRYBURGH ABBEY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath, tweed murmur'd 'mid the forests green
Last Line: To give their whole lives blamelessly to god!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Tweed (river), England And Scotland


BENEATH, Tweed murmur'd 'mid the forests green:
And through thy beech-tree and laburnum boughs,
A solemn ruin, lovely in repose,
Dryburgh! thine ivy'd walls were greyly seen:
Thy court is now a garden, where the flowers
Expand in silent beauty, and the bird,
Flitting from arch to arch, alone is heard
To cheer with song the melancholy bowers.
Yet did a solemn pleasure fill the soul,
As through thy shadowy cloistral cells we trode,
To think, hoar pile! that once thou wert the abode
Of men, who could to solitude control
Their hopes—yea! from Ambition's pathways stole,
To give their whole lives blamelessly to God!





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