...day on which I for the first time beheld the timeworn cloisters of NETLEY ABBEY A LEGEND OF HAMPSHIRE And the ivy sheen, With its mantle of green, That...Then I thought of the ancient time—- The days of the Monks of old, — When to Matin and Vesper, and Compline chime, The loud Hosanna roll'd, And thy...

...Netley, as the sun Across the western wave Was sinking slow, And a golden glow To thy roofless tower he gave; And the ivy sheen, With its mantle of green...that glorious light, And I felt 'twas holy ground. He then goes on to enlarge upon the legend of a refractory nun having been walled up alive in the abbey,...

...ABBEY. A LEGEND OF HAMPSHIRE I SAW thee, Netley, as the sun Across the western wave Was sinking slow, And a golden glow To thy roofless towers he gave;...‘twas holy ground. Then I thought of the ancient timeThe days of thy Monks of old,— When to Matin, and Vesper, and Compline chime, The loud Hosanna...