Duns Scotuss Oxford

Towery city and branchy between towers;

Cuckoo-echoing, bell-swarmèd, lark charmèd, rook racked, river-rounded;

The dapple-eared lily below thee; that country and town

Once encounter in, here coped and poisèd powers;

Thou hast a base and brickish skirt there,

That neighbour-nature thy grey beauty is

Best in; graceless growth, thou hast

Rural, rural keeping — folk, flocks, and flowers.

Yet ah! this air I gather and I

He lived on: these weeds and waters, these walls are

He haunted who of all men most sways my spirits to peace;

Of realty the rarest-veinèd unraveller; a

Rivalled insight, be rival Italy or Greece;

Who fired France for Mary without spot.