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Poems Of William Wordsworth: Within King's College Chapel, Cambridge

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Wordsworth, William

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Within King's College Chapel, Cambridge

Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense, With ill - match'd aims the Architect who plann'd (Albeit labouring for a scanty band Of white - robed Scholars only) this immense

And glorious work of fine intelligence! - Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely - calculated less or more: - So deem'd the man who fashion'd for the sense

These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self - poised, and scoop'd into ten thousand cells Where light and shade repose, where music dwells

Lingering and wandering on as loth to die - ...

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