Showing posts with label Prebends' Bridge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prebends' Bridge. Show all posts

Tuesday, 11 December 2012

Ode to Durham (NZ271418)


Cast in stone on Prebends’ Bridge, Durham City:


Grey towers of Durham
Yet well I love thy mixed and massive piles
Half church of God, half castle 'gainst the Scot
And long to roam those venerable aisles
With records stored of deeds long since forgot.

[From Sir Walter Scott’s Harold the Dauntless, published 1817]