Frederick William Faber - Aged Cities lyrics

I have known cities with the strong-armed Rhine Clasping their mouldered quays in lordly sweep; And lingered where the Maine's low waters shine Through Tyrian Frankfort; and been fain to weep Mid the green cliffs where pale Mosella laves That Roman sepulchre, imperial Trèves. Ghent boasts her steet, and Bruges her moonlight square; And holy Mechlin, Rome of Flanders, stands Like a queen-mother on her spacious lands; And Antwerp shoots her glowing spire in air. Yet have I seen no place, by inland brook, Hill-top, or plain, or trim arcaded bowers, That carries age so nobly in its look As Oxford with the sun upon her towers.