England and Yesterday

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>V.<br/><small>ON THE PRE-REFORMATION CHURCHES ABOUT OXFORD.</small></h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="verse">Imperial Iffley, Cumnor bowered in green,</div> <div class="verse">And Templar Sandford in the boatman’s call,</div> <div class="verse">And sweet-belled Appleton, and Marcham wall</div> <div class="verse">That dost upon adoring ivies lean;</div> <div class="verse">Meek Binsey; Dorchester, where streams convene</div> <div class="verse">Bidding on graves thy solemn shadow fall;</div> <div class="verse">Clear Cassington that soars perpetual;</div> <div class="verse">Holton and Hampton Poyle, and towers between:</div> <div class="verse">If one of all in your sad courts that come,</div> <div class="verse">Belovèd and disparted! be your own,</div> <div class="verse">Kin to the souls ye had, while yet endures</div> <div class="verse">Some memory of a great communion known</div> <div class="verse">At home in quarries of old Christendom,—</div> <div class="verse">Ah, mark him: he will lay his cheek to yours.</div> </div></div> <hr> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />