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Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

By HenryVan Dyke

1098 Roslin and Hawthornden

FAIR Roslin Chapel, how divine

The art that reared thy costly shrine!

Thy carven columns must have grown

By magic, like a dream in stone.

Yet not within thy storied wall

Would I in adoration fall,

So gladly as within the glen

That leads to lovely Hawthornden:

A long-drawn aisle, with roof of green

And vine-clad pillars, while between

The Esk runs murmuring on its way,

In living music, night and day.

Within the temple of this wood

The martyrs of the convenant stood,

And rolled the psalm, and poured the prayer,

From Nature’s solemn altar-stair.