• Ye distant spires, ye antique towers,
      That crowned the watery glade,
    Where grateful Science still adores
      Her Henry’s holy shade;
    And ye that from the stately brow
    Of Windsor’s heights the expanse below
      Of grove, of lawn, of mead survey,
    Whose turf, whose shade, whose flowers among
    Wanders the hoary Thames along
      His...