Decay of Piety.....

Composed on the eve of the Marriage of a Friend

in the Vale of Grasmere, 1812..

From the Italian of Michael Angelo

From the Same .

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It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free

Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go? 220

With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh... 221

The world is too much with us; late and soon... 221

A volant Tribe of Bards on earth are found...... 221

How sweet it is when mother Fancy rocks

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Personal Talk

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Continued

Continued

Concluded

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I watch, and long have watched, with calm regret 222

To B. R. Haydon ....

From the dark chambers of dejection freed

Fair Prime of life! were it enough to gild.

I heard (alas! 't was only in a dream).

Retirement

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To the Memory of Raisley Calvert

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From the Same. To the Supreme Being.

Surprised by joy-impatient as the Wind.....

Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne

Even so for me a Vision sanctified

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MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS. - PART II.

Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned. 223

Not Love, not War, nor the tumultuous swell... 223

While not a leaf seems faded; while the fields.. 223

How clear, how keen, how marvellously bright.. 224

Composed during a Storm

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To a Snow-drop

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Composed a few days after the foregoing.

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The stars are mansions built by Nature's hand.. 224

To Lady Beaumont ......

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To the Lady Mary Lowther.....

There is a pleasure in poetic pains

The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said..... 225

Hail, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour.. 225

With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the

The Monument commonly called Long Meg, and

her Daughters......

Composed after a Journey across the Hambleton

Hills, Yorkshire

These words were uttered as in pensive mood... 227

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3,

1802

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Ye sacred Nurseries of blooming Youth! (Ox-

ford,) 1820......

Shame on this faithless heart! that could allow.

(Oxford,) 1820.............

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A Tradition of Oken Hill in Darley Dale, Derby-
shire

Filial Piety

To B. R. Haydon, on seeing his Picture of Na.

poleon Buonaparte on the Island of St. Helena 231

Chatsworth! thy stately mansion, and the pride. 231

Desponding Father! mark this altered bough.... 231

Roman Antiquities discovered at Bishopstone,

Herefordshire

St. Catherine of Ledbury

Why art thou silent! Is thy love a plant

Four fiery steeds impatient of the rein

To the Author's Portrait

Conclusion. To- -...

In my mind's eye a temple like a cloud

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Though the bold wings of Poesy affect........

A Poet!-He hath put his heart to school

'Wait, prithee, wait!" this answer Lesbia threw 233

The most alluring clouds that mount the sky.... 233

On a Portrait of the Duke of Wellington upon the

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Field of Waterloo, by Haydon

Composed on a May Morning, 1838...

Lo! where she stands fixed in a saint-like trance 233

To a Painter.....

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On the same Subject....

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Hark! 'tis the Thrush, undaunted, undeprest

... 234

'Tis He whose yester-evening's high disdain

.... 234

Oh what a Wreck! how changed in mien and

speech!

Intent on gathering wool from hedge and brake.. 234

Illustrated Books and Newspapers..

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A Plea for Authors, May, 1838....

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A Poet to his Grandchild, (Sequel to the fore-

going)....

To the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D.D.,

Master of Harrow School

To the Planet Venus

At Dover...

Wansfell! this Household has a favoured lot.... 236

While beams of orient light shoot wide and

high....

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MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND, 1803.

Departure from the Vale of Grasmere, August,

1803......

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At the Grave of Burns, 1803. Seven Years after

his Death.......

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Thoughts suggested the Day following, on the

Banks of Nith, near the Poet's Residence.. 238

To the Sons of Burns after visiting the Grave of

their Father

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Ellen Irwin: or, the Braes of Kirtle.

To a Highland Girl...........

Glen-Almain; or, the Narrow Glen.

Stepping Westward

The Solitary Reaper

Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch Awe.... 242

Rob Roy's Grave...

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Sonnet. Composed at

Yarrow Unvisited..........

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Sonnet in the Pass of Killicranky

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The Matron of Jedborough and her Husband.... 245

Fly, some kind Harbinger, to Grasmere-dale!... 246

The Blind Highland Boy........

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MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND, 1814.

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The Brownie's Cell.......

Composed at Cora Linn, in sight of Wallace's

Tower......

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Effusion, in the Pleasure-ground on the banks of

the Bran.......

Yarrow Visited, September, 1814.

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PENDENCE AND LIBERTY. - PART I.

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Composed by the Sea-side, near Calais, August,

1802....

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It is a reed that's shaken by the wind........... 253

Composed near Calais, on the road leading to

Ardres, August 7, 1802.

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I grieved for Buonaparté, with a vain

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Festivals have I seen that were not names ...... 253

On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic..... 254

The King of Sweden...

To Toussaint L'Ouverture..

September 1, 1802......

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Composed in the Valley near Dover, on the day

of landing

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Inland, within a hollow vale, I stood.....

Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Swit-
zerland ...

Written in London, September, 1802 ...

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Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour 255

Great men have been among us; hands that

penned.....

It is not to be thought of that the Flood...

When I have borne in memory what has tamed.. 255

One might believe that natural miseries......... 256

There is a bondage worse, far worse, to bear.... 256

These times strike moneyed worldlings with

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England! the time is come when tnou should'st

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When looking on the present state of things..... 256

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To the Men of Kent. October, 1803

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Anticipation. October, 1803....

Another year!-another deadly blow!.......... 257

Ode. Who rises on the banks of Seine....

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POEMS DEDICATED TO NATIONAL INDE
PENDENCE AND LIBERTY.-PART II.

On a celebrated Event in Ancient History....... 258

Upon the same Event...........

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To Thomas Clarkson on the Final Passing of the

Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.... 258

A Prophecy. February, 1807......

Composed by the side of Grasmere Lake

Go back to antique ages, if thine eyes.

Composed while the Author was engaged in

Writing a Tract, occasioned by the Conven-

tion of Cintra.

Composed at the same Time and on the same

Occasion

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Hoffer

Advance- - come forth from thy Tyrolean ground 259

Feelings of the Tyrolese....

Alas! what boots the long laborious quest ...... 259

And is it among rude untutored Dales........

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O'er the wide earth, on mountain and on plain... 260

On the Final Submission of the Tyrolese

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Hail, Zaragoza! If with unwet eye............ 260

Say, what is Honour?"Tis the finest sense.... 260

The martial courage of a day is vain.

Brave Schill! by death delivered, take thy flight. 261

Call not the royal Swede unfortunate....

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Look now on that Adventurer who hath paid.... 261

Is there a Power that can sustain and cheer...... 261

Ah! where is Palafox? Nor tongue nor pen.... 261

In due observance of an ancient rite

Feelings of a Noble Biscayan at one of those

Funerals.......

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The Oak of Guernica

ADDITIONAL PIECES.

Lines on the expected Invasion. 1803.

On the Same Occasion

The Eagle and the Dove....

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By Moscow self-devoted to a blaze

The Germans on the Heights of Hockheim...... 264

Now that all hearts are glad, all faces bright..... 264

Feelings of a French Royalist, on the Disinter-

ment of the Remains of the Duke d'Enghien 264

Occasioned by the Battle of Waterloo...

Siege of Vienna raised by John Sobieski..

Occasioned by the Battle of Waterloo.

Emperors and Kings, how oft have temples rung. 265

Ode, 1814. When the soft hand of sleep had

closed the latch

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Ode. The Morning of the Day appointed for a

General Thanksgiving.

1816

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SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY AND

ORDER.

Composed after reading a Newspaper of the Day. 272

Upon the Late General Fast. March, 1832..

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Said Secrecy to Cowardice and Fraud...

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Blest Statesman He, whose Mind's unselfish will 273

In allusion to various recent Histories and Notices

of the French Revolution..

Continued..

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Concluded

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Men of the Western World! in Fate's dark book 274

To the Pennsylvanians .....

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At Bologna, in Remembrance of the late Insur-

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Continued

Concluded

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Young England-what is then become of Old.. 275

Feel for the wrongs to universal ken............ 275

SONNETS UPON THE PUNISHMENT OF

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DEATH.-1840.

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Suggested by the View of Lancaster Castle (on

the Road from the South)........

Tenderly do we feel by Nature's law........... 275

The Roman Consul doomed his sons to die...... 275

Is Death, when evil against good has fought

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Not to the object specially designed

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Ye brood of conscience-Spectres! that frequent 276

Before the world had past her time of youth..... 276

Fit retribution by the moral code.......

Though to give timely warning and deter ....... 276

Our bodily life, some plead, that life the shrine.. 276

Ah, think how one compelled for life to abide.... 276

See the Condemned alone within his cell........ 277

Conclusion

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Apology....

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MEMORIALS OF A TOUR ON THE CONTI-

NENT, 1820.

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Dedication

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Fish-women. On Landing at Calais

Bruges

Bruges

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After visiting the Field of Waterloo

Between Namur and Liege.

Aix-la-Chapelle........

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In the Cathedral at Cologne

In a Carriage, upon the Banks of the Rhine..... 279

Hymn, for the Boatmen, as they approach the

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Rapids under the Castle of Heidelberg...... 279

The Source of the Danube.....

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Memorial, near the Outlet of the Lake of Thun. 280

Composed in One of the Catholic Cantons.. 280

After-thought

On approaching the Staub-bach, Lauterbrunnen

The Fall of the Aar-Handec.

Scene on the Lake of Brientz

Engelberg, the Hill of Angels..

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Our Lady of the Snow

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Effusion, in Presence of the Painted Tower of

Tell, at Altorf...

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The Town of Schwytz

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On hearing the "Ranz des Vaches" on the Top

of the Pass of St. Gothard...

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The Church of San Salvador, seen from the Lake

of Lugano

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Fort Fuentes

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The Italian Itinerant, and the Swiss Goatherd... 284

The Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci, in the

Convent, Milan

The Eclipse of the Sun, 1820

The Three Cottage Girls......

The Column intended by Buonaparte for a Tri-

umphal Edifice in Milan, now lying in the

Simplon Pass.....

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Stanzas, composed in the Simplon Pass....

Echo, upon the Gemmi......

Processions. Suggested on a Sabbath Morning in

the Vale of Chamouny

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Elegiac Stanzas

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Sky-prospect. From the Plain of France

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On being Stranded near the Harbour of Boulogne 289

After landing-the Valley of Dover.

Desultory Stanzas.

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THE RIVER DUDDON. A SERIES OF SOnNets.

To the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, 1820............. 293

Not envying Latian shades-if yet they throw.. 294

Child of the clouds! remote from every taint.... 294

How shall I paint thee?-Be this naked stone.. 294

Take, cradled Nursling of the mountain, take... 294

Sole listener, Duddon! to the breeze that played. 294

Flowers.

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"Change me, some God, into that breathing

rose!"

What aspect bore the Man who roved or fled

The Stepping-stones

The same Subject....

The Faëry Chasm

Hints for the Fancy

Open Prospect......

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O mountain Stream! the Shepherd and his Cot.. 296

From this deep chasm, where quivering sunbeams

play........

American Tradition

Return.....

Seathwaite Chapel

Tributary Stream ...

The Plain of Donnerdale

Whence that low voice?-A whisper from the

heart

Tradition...

Sheep-washing.

The Resting-place

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Methinks 'twere no unprecedented feat

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Return, Content! for fondly I pursued..............` 298

Fallen, and diffused into a shapeless heap ....... 298

Journey renewed...........

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No record tells of lance opposed to lance.. ....... 298

Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce 298

The KIRK of ULPHA to the Pilgrim's eye

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Not hurled precipitous from steep to steep

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Conclusion

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After-thought

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Postscript

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YARROW REVISITED, AND OTHER POEMS, COM-

POSED (TWO EXCEPTED) DURING A TOUR IN SCOTLAND,

AND ON THE English Border, in the AutUMN OF

1831.

The gallant Youth, who may have gained....... 300

On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Ab-

botsford, for Naples......

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A Place of Burial in the South of Scotland...... 302

On the Sight of a Manse in the South of Scotland 302

Composed in Roslin Chapel, during a Storm..... 302

The Trosachs.......

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Changes .....

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Composed in the Glen of Loch Etiye

Composed after reading a Newspaper of the Day. 303

Composed at Dunolly Castle in the Bay of Oban 303

In the Sound of Mull......

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Suggested at Tyndrum in a Storm....

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The Earl of Breadalbane's Ruined Mansion, and

Family Burial-place, near Killin............ 303

"Rest and be Thankful!" At the Head of Glen-

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Highland Hut.

The Brownie

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To the Planet Venus, an Evening Star. Composed

at Loch Lomond .....

Bothwell Castle. Passed unseen, on account of

stormy Weather......

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Picture of Daniel in the Lions' Den, at Hamilton

Palace...

The Avon. A Feeder of the Annan

Suggested by a View from an Eminence in Ingle-

wood Forest

Hart's-horn Tree near Penrith

Countess' Pillar........

Roman Antiquities. From the Roman Station at

Old Penrith......

Apology, for the foregoing Poems

The Highland Broach

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POEMS, COMPOSED OR SUGGESTED DURING

A TOUR, IN THE SUMMER OF 1833.

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Adieu, Rydalian Laurels! that have grown ..... 307

Why should the Enthusiast, journeying through

this Isle

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They called Thee MERRY ENGLAND, in old time. 307

To the River Greta, near Keswick

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To the River Derwent...

In Sight of the Town of Cockermouth.......... 308

Address from the Spirit of Cockermouth Castle. 308

Nun's Well, Brigham...

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To a Friend. On the Banks of the Derwent.... 308

Mary Queen of Scots. Landing at the Mouth of

the Derwent, Workington .....

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In the Channel between the Coast of Cumberland

and the Isle of Man

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At Sea off the Isle of Man.....

Desire we past illusions to recal..

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On entering Douglas Bay, Isle of Man...

By the Sea-shore, Isle of Man

Isle of Man..............

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The Retired Marine officer, Isle of Man...

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By a Retired Mariner. (A Friend of the Author) 310

At Bala-Sala, Isle of Man. (Supposed to be

written by a Friend)

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Tynwald Hill...

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Despond who will I heard a voice exclaim..... 311

In the Frith of Clyde, Ailsa Crag. During an

Eclipse of the Sun, July 17.......

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On the Frith of Clyde. In a Steam-boat

On revisiting Dunolly Castle...

The Dunolly Eagle.............

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Cave of Staffa ....

Cave of Staffa. After the Crowd had departed.. 312.

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Clerical Integrity

Persecution of the Scottish Covenanters

Acquittal of the Bishops....

William the Third .....

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ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS.-PART III. FROM

THE RESTORATION TO THE PRESENT TIMES.

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Obligations of Civil to Religious Liberty

Walton's Book of Lives...

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Sacheverel........

Down a Swift Stream, thus far, a bold design.... 364

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I. The Pilgrim Fathers....

II. Continued..

III. Concluded.-American Episcopacy 365

Bishops and Priests, blessed are ye, if deep..... 365

Places of Worship

Pastoral Character

The Liturgy.

Baptism

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Sponsors

Catechising.

Confirmation..

Confirmation- Continued

Sacrament

The Marriage Ceremony....

Thanksgiving after Childbirth.

Visitation of the Sick

The Commination Service

Forms of Prayer at Sea..

Funeral Service

Rural Ceremony

Regrets...

Mutability

Old Abbeys

Emigrant French Clergy

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