II PATRIOTIC SYMPATHIES 1821 1822 LAST night, without a voice, that Vision spake Thou, too, dost visit oft my midnight dream; If thou hast fallen, and righteous Heaven restore III CHARLES THE SECOND WHO Comes With frantic love 1821 1822 with rapture greeted, and caressed his kingdom to regain? Him Virtue's Nurse, Adversity, in vain Received, and fostered in her iron breast: For all she taught of hardiest and of best, Or would have taught, by discipline of pain And long privation, now dissolves amain, Or is remembered only to give zest But for what gain? if England soon must sink Into a gulf which all distinction levels That bigotry may swallow the good name, And, with that draught, the life-blood: misery, shame, By Poets loathed; from which Historians shrink! IV LATITUDINARIANISM 1821 1822 YET Truth is keenly sought for, and the wind Charged with rich words poured out in thought's defence; Whether the Church inspire that eloquence, Or a Platonic Piety confined To the sole temple of the inward mind; Sad thoughts; for from above the starry sphere Shines through his soul - "that he may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." V WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES 1821 1822 THERE are no colours in the fairest sky men, Dropped from an Angel's wing. With moistened eye We read of faith and purest charity In Statesman, Priest, and humble Citizen: Around meek Walton's heavenly memory. VI CLERICAL INTEGRITY 1821 1822 NOR shall the eternal roll of praise reject And some to want as if by tempests wrecked Feel not that Conscience never can betray, That peace of mind is Virtue's sure effect. As men the dictate of whose inward sense |