Inspire, through unadulterated ears

It was with reference to thoughts expressed in verse, that the Author entered upon the above notices, and with verse he will conclude. The passage is extracted from his MSS. written above thirty years ago: it turns upon the individual dignity which humbleness of social condition does not preclude, but frequently promotes. It has no direct bearing upon clubs for the discussion of public affairs, nor upon political or tradeunions; but if a single workman who, being a member of one of those clubs, runs the risk of becoming an agitator, or who, being enrolled in a union, must be left without a will of his own, and therefore a slave - should read these lines, and be touched by them, the Author would indeed rejoice, and little would he care for losing credit as a poet with intemperate critics, who think differently from him upon political philosophy or public measures, if the soberminded admit that, in general views, his affections have been moved, and his imagination exercised, under and for the guidance of reason.

"Here might I pause, and bend in reverence
To Nature, and the power of human minds;
To men as they are men within themselves.
How oft high service is performed within,
When all the external man is rude in show;
Not like a temple rich with pomp and gold,
But a mere mountain chapel that protects
Its simple worshippers from sun and shower!
Of these, said I, sha!! be my song; of these,
If future years mature me for the task,
Will I record the praises, making verse
Deal boldly with substantial thinge-in truth
And sanctity of passion, speak of thes
That justice may be done, obeisance paid

Pour rapture, tenderness, and hope; my theme
No other than the very heart of man,
As found among the best of those who live,
Not unexalted by religious faith,

Nor uninformed by books, good books, though few,
In Nature's presence: thence may I select
Sorrow that is not sorrow, but delight,
And miserable love that is not pain
To hear of, for the glory that redounds
Therefrom to human kind, and what we are.
Be mine to follow with no timid step
Where knowledge leads me; it shall be my pride
That I have dared to tread this holy ground,
Speaking no dream, but things oracular,
Matter not lightly to be heard by those
Who to the letter of the outward promise
Do read the invisible soul; by men adroit
In speech, and for communion with the world
Accomplished, minds whose faculties are then
Most active when they are most eloquent,
And elevated most when most admired.
Men may be found of other mould than these;
Who are their own upholders, to themselves
Encouragement, and energy, and will;
Expressing liveliest thoughts in lively words.
As native passion dictates. Others, too,
There are, among the walks of homely life,
Still higher, men for contemplation framed;
Shy, and unpractised in the strife of phrase;
Meek men, whose very souls perhaps would sink
Beneath them, summoned to such intercourse.
Their's is the language of the heavens, the power,
The thought, the image, and the silent joy:
Words are but under-agents in their souls;
When they are grasping with their greatest strength
They do not breathe among them; this I speak
In gratitude to God, who feeds our hearts
For his own service, knoweth, loveth us,
When we are unregarded by the world"

written in March, 171

my Pocket Copy

of The Castle of Indolence, 95
Star Gazers, 170

St. Catherine of Ledbury, 232
Steam-boats, Viaducts, and Railways,
314

Stepping westward, 241
Stray Pleasures, 149
Struggle of the Britons, 349

The Longest Day, 81

The Marriage Ceremony, 366
The Matron of Jedborough and her
Husband, 245

The Monument called Long Meg and
her Daughters, 227

The Mother's Return, 74
The Norman Boy, 82
The Norman Conquest, 353
The Oak and the Broom, 141
The Oak of Guernica, 262
The old Cumberland Beggar, 453
The Pass of Kirkstone, 191
The Pet-Lamb, 78

The Pilgrim's Dream, 148
The Pillar of Trajan, 327

Paradise, 192

occasioned by the Battle of

Waterloo, 265

Oct., 1803, 256

256
257

Thanksgiving after Childbrth, 367
Thanksgiving Ode, Jan., 1816, 267
The Affliction of Margaret 101
The Armenian Lady's Love, 107
The Avon, 305

The Brothers, 87

The Brownie, 304

258

on approaching the Staub-bach,

on entering Douglas Bay, 309
on hearing the "Ranz des
Vaches," 282

The Brownie's Cell, 249
The Childless Father, 102
The Church of San Salvador, 283
The Column lying in the Simplon Pass,

287

The Commination Service, 367
The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian
Woman, 124

The Contrast, 139

The Cottager to her Infant, 102
The Council of Clermont, 354
The Cuckoo and the Nightingale,

443

The Cuckoo at Laverna, 323
The Cuckoo-clock, 192
The Danish Boy, 147
The Dunolly Eagle, 311
The Eagle and the Dove, 272
The Earl of Breadalbane's ruined
Mansion, 303

The Eclipse of the Sun, 1820, 285
The Egyptian Maid, 206
The Emigrant Mother, 103
The Excursion, 553

The Faery Chasm, 295
The Fall of the Aar, 281

The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale, 455
The Female Vagrant, (see Guilt and
Sorrow), 38

The Force of Prayer, 412
The Forsaken, 97
The Fountain, 401

The French and the Spanish Guerillas,
263

The French Army in Russia, 263
264

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The Germans on the Heights of Hock-
heim, 264

The Gleaner, 410
The Green Linnet, 138
The Haunted Tree, 171
The Highland Broach, 306
The Horn of Egremont Castle, 167
The Idiot Boy, 110

The Idle Shepherd-boys, 79
The Infant M. M., 230
The Italian Itinerant, 284
The Jung-frau, etc., (an illustration),
361

The King of Sweden, 254

The Kitten and Falling Leaves, 143
The Labourer's Noon-day Hymn, 410
The Last of the Flock, 100,
The Last Supper, 285

The Liturgy, 365

The Tables turned, 393
The Thorn, 182

The Three Cottage Girls, 286
The Town of Schwytz, 282
The Triad, 177

The Trosachs, 302

The Two April Mornings, 401

The Two Thieves, 456

The Vaudois, 356

The Virgin, 358

The Waggoner, 153

The Warning.-Sequel to the Firs
born, 420

The Waterfall and the Eglantine, 146
The Westmoreland Girl, 84
The White Doe of Rylstone, 328
The Widow on Windermere side, 99
The Wild-duck's Nest, 218
The Wishing Gate, 399

The Wishing Gate destroyed, 415
Thought of a Briton on the subjuga.
tion of Switzerland, 255
Thought on the Seasons, 409
Thoughts. Banks of the Nith, 238