A dear look to her lowly Friend; There stopped; her thirst was satisfied With what this innocent spring supplied: Her sanction inwardly she bore, And stood apart from human cares: But to the world returned no more, Although with no unwilling mind Help did she give at need, and joined The Wharfdale peasants in their prayers. At length, thus faintly, faintly tied To earth, she was set free, and died. Thy soul, exalted Emily,
Maid of the blasted family,
Rose to the God from whom it came! -In Rylstone church her mortal frame Was buried, by her Mother's side.
Most glorious sunset! and a ray Survives
the twilight of this day
In that fair Creature whom the fields
Support, and whom the forest shields;
Who, having filled a holy place, Partakes, in her degree, Heaven's grace;
And bears a memory and a mind
Raised far above the law of kind;
Haunting the spots with lonely cheer Which her dear Mistress once held dear:
Loves most what Emily loved most,
The inclosure of this churchyard ground; Here wanders like a gliding ghost,
every Sabbath here is found; Comes with the people when the bells Are heard among the moorland dells, Finds entrance through yon arch, where way Lies open on the Sabbath-day;
Here walks amid the mournful waste Of prostrate altars, shrines defaced,
And floors encumbered with rich show Of fret-work imagery laid low; Paces softly, or makes halt,
By fractured cell, or tomb, or vault; By plate of monumental brass Dim-gleaming among weeds and grass, And sculptured Forms of Warriors brave: But chiefly by that single grave, That one sequestered hillock green, The pensive visitant is seen. There doth the gentle Creature lie With those adversities unmoved; Calm spectacle, by earth and sky In their benignity approved! And aye, methinks, this hoary Pile, Subdued by outrage and decay, Looks down upon her with a smile, A gracious smile, that seems to say, "Thou, thou art not a Child of Time, But Daughter of the Eternal Prime!"
FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY INTO BRITAIN, TO THE CONSUMMMATION OF THE PAPAL DOMINION.
"A verse may catch a wandering Soul, that flies Profounder Tracts, and by a blest surprise Convert delight into a Sacrifice."
I, WHO accompanied with faithful pace Cerulean Duddon from its cloud-fed spring, And loved with spirit ruled by his to sing Of mountain-quiet and boon nature's grace, I, who essayed the nobler Stream to trace Of Liberty, and smote the plausive string Till the checked torrent, proudly triumphing, Won for herself a lasting resting-place, —
Now seek upon the heights of Time the source Of a HOLY RIVER, on whose banks are found Sweet pastoral flowers, and laurels that have crowned
Full oft the unworthy brow of lawless force ; And, for delight of him who tracks its course, Immortal amaranth and palms abound.
If there be prophets on whose spirits rest Past things, revealed like future, they can tell What Powers, presiding o'er the sacred well Of Christian Faith, this savage Island blessed With its first bounty. Wandering through the west, Did holy Paul* a while in Britain dwell, And call the Fountain forth by miracle,
And with dread signs the nascent Stream invest? Or he, whose bonds dropped off, whose prison doors Flew open, by an Angel's voice unbarred? Or some of humbler name, to these wild shores Storm-driven, who, having seen the cup of woe Pass from their Master, sojourned here to guard The precious Current they had taught to flow?
As Menai's foam; and toward the mystic ring Where Augurs stand, the Future questioning, Slowly the cormorant aims her heavy flight, Portending ruin to each baleful rite, That, in the lapse of ages, hath crept o'er Diluvian truths, and patriarchal lore.
Haughty the Bard: can these meek doctrines blight His transports? wither his heroic strains? But all shall be fulfilled; -the Julian spear A way first opened; and, with Roman chains, The tidings come of Jesus crucified;
They come, they spread, the weak, the suffer
Receive the faith, and in the hope abide.
DRUIDICAL EXCOMMUNICATION.
MERCY and Love have met thee on thy road, Thou wretched Outcast, from the gift of fire
* This water-fowl was, among the Druids, an emblem of those traditions connected with the deluge that made an important part of their mysteries. The Cormorant was a bird of bad
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