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Composed at Cora Linn, in sight of Wallace's Tower.

Effusion, in the Pleasure-Ground on the Banks of the

Bran, near Dunkeld

"From the dark chambers of dejection freed"

Yarrow Visited

Lines written on a blank leaf in a copy of the author's

poem The Excursion, upon hearing of the death of

the late Vicar of Kendal

"The fairest, brightest, hues of ether fade".

"Weak is the will of Man, his judgment blind"

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"Hail, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour!"

"The Shepherd, looking eastward, softly said

"Even as a dragon's eye that feels the stress

"Mark the concentred hazels that enclose"

"Surprised by joy-impatient as the Wind"

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1816

Ode. The Morning of the Day appointed for a General

Thanksgiving. January 18, 1816

Ode.

Invocation to the Earth

Ode.

Ode.

"Emperors and Kings, how oft have temples rung"

Feelings of a French Royalist, on the Disinterment of the

Remains of the Duke D'Enghien .

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ΙΙΟ

III

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A Fact, and an Imagination; or, Canute and Alfred, on

the Sea-shore

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"A little onward lend thy guiding hand"

Το

on her first Ascent to the Summit of Helvellyn 135

The Pilgrim's Dream; or, the Star and the Glow-worm

Inscriptions supposed to be found in and near a Hermit's

Cell.

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Composed upon an Evening of Extraordinary Splendour

and Beauty

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1819

This, and the two following, were suggested by Mr. W.

Westall's Views of the Caves, etc., in Yorkshire

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Written upon a blank leaf in "The Complete Angler"

Composed in one of the Valleys of Westmoreland, on

Easter Sunday

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