Towery city and branchy between towers;
Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark-charmèd, rook-racked, river-rounded;
The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town did 
Once encounter in, here coped and poisèd powers; 

Thou hast a base and brickish skirt there, sours
That neighbour-nature thy grey beauty is grounded 
Best in; graceless growth, thou hast confounded 
Rural rural keeping?folk, flocks, and flowers. 

Yet ah! this air I gather and I release 
He lived on; these weeds and waters, these walls are what
He haunted who of all men most sways my spirits to peace; 

Of realty the rarest-veinèd unraveller; a not 
Rivalled insight, be rival Italy or Greece; 
Who fired France for Mary without spot.