Devon

Deep-wooded combes, clear-mounded hills of morn,

Red sunset tides against a red sea-wall,

High lonely barrows where the curlews call,

Far moors that echo to the ringing horn,—

Devon! thou spirit of all these beauties born,

All these are thine, but thou art more than all:

Speech can but tell thy name, praise can but fall

Beneath the cold white sea-mist of thy scorn.

Yet, yet, O noble land, forbid us not

Even now to join our faint memorial chime

To the fierce chant wherewith their hearts were hot

Who took the tide in thy Imperial prime;

Whose glory's thine till Glory sleeps forgot

With her ancestral phantoms, Pride and Time.