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TO THE THAMES AT WESTMINSTER, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With no cold admiration do I gaze
Last Line: A rock-throned city clad in heavenly light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Talfourd, Sergeant
Subject(s): Thames (river)


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 faintly plays,
And glides delighted through thy crystal ways,
Till on her eye those wave-fed poplars gleam,
Beneath whose shade her first ethereal maze
She fashion'd; where she traced in clearest dream
Thy mirror'd course of wood-enshrined repose
Besprent 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.






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