Mortal Stone and Lime

Helen's tower, here I stand,

Dominant over sea and land.

Son's love built me, and I hold

Mother's love in letter'd gold.

Love is in and out of time,

I am mortal stone and lime.

Would my granite girth were strong

As either love, to last as long

I should wear my crown entire

To and thro' the Doomsday fire,

And be found of angel eyes

In earth's recurring Paradise.

 

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

 

Old stone tower found at Wision

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