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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79.

Walkley

Walkley

By Ebenezer Elliott (1781–1849)

SARAH and William Adams! here we stood,

Roofed by the cloud, which cast his frown between

Wardsend and Loxley’s moorlands. From the wood

Of one-starred Grenno, like a sea unseen,

The wind swept o’er us, seeming, in his might,

To shake the steadfast rocks; while, rushing keen

Beyond the edge of darkness, stormy light,

As from a league-wide trumpet, on the scene

A cataract of glory poured; and, bright

In gloom, the hill-tops islanded the night

Of billowy shade around us. Vale and hill,

Forest and cloud, were restless as a fight;

They seemed as they would nevermore be still;

While, anchored over all, the high-poised kite

Saw the foamed rivers dash their blue with white.