Kirkby Lonsdale

"I do not know, in all my own country, still less in France or Italy, a place more naturally divine."

(John Ruskin)

Still grand, and beautiful, and good,

And scorned the swollen raging flood,

Has Lonsdale bridge unshaken stood,

For many ages;

Though antiquarians, who have tried

some date to find, in vain have pried

In ancient Pages.

(A native poet, unattributed)