The history of the castle, town, and forest of Knaresbrough, with Harrogate, and it's medicinal waters : including an account of the most remarkable places in the neighbourhood / by E. Hargrove.

  • Hargrove, Ely, 1742-1818.
Date:
1821
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The history of the castle, town, and forest of Knaresbrough, with Harrogate, and it's medicinal waters : including an account of the most remarkable places in the neighbourhood / by E. Hargrove. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    For, as thou dost incessant pass, With sharpen’d scythe, and circling glass, All nature is thy prey ; All must submit to thy awards, A castle is a house of cards, And princes, common clay. No more the pri«ry’s matin bell Awakes the morn, with solemn knell, To call the country round ; In dust her mould’ring ruins lie— No more her sculptures strike the eye, And mute’s each awful sound. The earth itself, the sea, and sky, The shining worlds that roll on high, All hasten to decay ; That great and glorious orb of light, The sun! must sink in endless night, At the great final day. Then happy they, whom virtue guides Down life’s tempest’ous stormy tides! To joys sublime they soar ; Where chilling winters never come, But springs eternal ever bloom, And sorrows are no more. From Hargrove's Office, Knaresbrough.