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Talfourd, Thomas Noon: To the Thames at Westminster - ZaunköniG - 21.05.2007 To the Thames at Westminster, in Recollection of the Banks of the Same River at Caversham, near Reading With no cold admiration do I gaze Upon thy pomp of waters, matchless stream! But home-sick fancy kindles with the beam That on thy lucid bosom coyly plays; And glides delighted through thy crystal ways Till on her eye those wave-fed poplars gleam, Beneath whose shade her first etherial maze She fashioned; where she traced in clearest dream Thy mirrored curse of wood-enshrined repose Besprend with island haunts of spirits bright; And widening on – till, at the vision’s close, Great London, only then a name of might for childish thought to build on, proudly rose A rock-throned city clad in heavenly light. |