text:  Funereal yews Notch'd with the growth of centuries stretching round Dismal in aspect and grotesque in shape Pair after pair were ranged: where ended these Girdling an open semicircle tower'd A row of rifted plane-trees inky-leaved With cinnamon-colour'd barks; and in the midst Hidden almost by their entwining boughs An unshut gateway musty and forlorn; Its old supporting pillars roughly rich With sculpturings quaint of intermingled flowers