Guernsey.
_"The spire whose silent finger," &c._ (Vo1. ix., p. 9.).--
"And O! ye swelling hills and spacious plains!
Besprent from shore to shore with steeple-tow'rs,
And spires _whose silent finger points to heav'n_."
Wordsworth, _Excursion_, vi. 17.
Coleridge uses the same idea in his _Friend_, No. xiv. p. 223.:
"An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat
countries with spire-steeples; which, as they cannot be referred to any
other object, _point as with silent finger to the sky_ and stars; and
sometimes, when they reflect the brazen light of a rich though rainy
sunset, appear like a pyramid of flame burning heavenward."