been trod before so ably and so often: without pre- | Where it is due. Thus haply shall I teach, tending, however, to any thing of novelty, either in Inspire, through unadulterated ears matter or manner, something may have been offered to view, which will save the writer from the imputation of having little to recommend his labour, but goodness of intention.
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 soberininded 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 things—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."
A Tradition of Oken Hill, 231
(Excursion), 550
(Mis. Son.), 215
(Tour in Italy), 318 (W. Doe of R.), 328
Departure.-Vale of Grasmere, 237
Descriptive Sketches, 29
Desultory Stanzas, 290
Devotional Incitements, 407 Dion, 415
Glad Tidings, 350
Glen-Almain, 241
Gold and Silver Fishes in a Vase, 189 Goody Blake and Harry Gill, 168 Gordale, 227
Grace Darling, 123 Greenock, 313 Guilt and Sorrow, 38 Gunpowder Plot, 361
Hart-leap Well, 184 Harts-horn Tree, 305 Her eyes are wild, 127
Dissolution of the Monasteries, 358
St. Bees, 315
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 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 1800 The Pilgrim's Dream, 148 The Pillar of Trajan, 327
Suggested by a picture of the Bird of The Pine of Monte Mario at Rome,
236 Temptations from Roman Refine- ments, 349
Thanksgiving after Childbrth, 367 Thanksgiving Ode, Jan., 1816, 267 The Affliction of Margaret -, 101 occasioned by the Battle of The Armenian Lady's Love, 107
265 The black Stones of Iona, 313
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 TI 179. The Faery Chasm, 295 The Fall of the Aar, 281 The Farmer of Tilsbury Vale, 455 The Female Vagrant, (see Guilt and Sorrow), 38 ཟྭ་ 8
The Force of Prayer, 412 The Forsaken, 97 The Fountain, 401
The French and the Spanish Guerillas, 263
The French Army in Russia, 263
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 18.0 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
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