Chapter 38 No.38

And now the vessel skirts the strand

Of mountainous Northumberland;

Towns, towers, and halls successive rise,

And catch the nuns' delighted eyes.

Monkwearmouth soon behind them lay,

And Tynemouth's priory and bay;

They marked, amid her trees, the hall

Of lofty Seaton-Delaval;

They saw the Blythe and Wansbeck floods

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