Elegiac Verses, in Memory of my Brother, John Words- worth, Commander of the E. I. Company's Ship, the Lines composed at Grasmere, during a Walk one Even- ing, after a Stormy Day, the Author having just read Lines written on a Blank Leaf in a Copy of the Author's Elegiac Stanzas. (Addressed to Sir G. H. B. upon the MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN SCOTLAND. 1803. I. DEPARTURE FROM THE VALE OF GRASMERE. AUGUST, 1803. THE gentlest Shade that walked Elysian plains Such animation often do I find, Power in my breast, wings growing in my mind, Then, when some rock or hill is overpast, Perchance without one look behind me cast, |