England and Yesterday

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>V.<br/><small>CHANGES IN THE TEMPLE.</small></h2> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="verse">The cry is at thy gates, thou darling ground,</div> <div class="verse">Again; for oft ere now thy children went</div> <div class="verse">Beggared and wroth, and parting greeting sent</div> <div class="verse">Some red old alley with a dial crowned;</div> <div class="verse">Some house of honour, in a glory bound</div> <div class="verse">With lives and deaths of spirits excellent;</div> <div class="verse">Some tree, rude-taken from his kingly tent,</div> <div class="verse">Hard by a little fountain’s friendly sound.</div> <div class="verse">O for Virginius’ hand, if only that</div> <div class="verse">Maintain the whole, and spoil these spoilings soon!</div> <div class="verse">Better the scowling Strand should lose, alas,</div> <div class="verse">Her walled oasis, and where once it was,</div> <div class="verse">All mournful in the cleared quadrangle sat</div> <div class="verse">Echo, and ivy, and the loitering moon.</div> </div></div> <hr> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />