Josiah Gilbert Holland

Kathrina Josiah Gilbert Holland

Queen-village of the meads Fronting the sunrise and in beauty throned, With jewelled homes around her lifted brow, And coronal of ancient forest trees- Northampton sits, and rules her pleasant realm. There where the saintly Edwards heralded The terrors of the Lord, and men bowed low Beneath the menace of his awful words; And there where Nature, with a thousand tongues Tender and true, from vale and mountain-top, And smiling streams, and landscapes piled afar, Proclaimed a gentler Gospel, I was born.