* 5 As through a zodiac, moves the ritual year ΙΟ XX BAPTISM Published 1827 DEAR 2 be the Church, that, watching o'er the needs Of Infancy, provides a timely shower Whose virtue changes to a christian Flower 1 1845. Enough for us to cast a transient glance The circle through; relinquishing its story For those whom Heaven hath fitted to advance And, harp in hand, rehearse the King of Glory- 1822. Enough for us to cast no careless glance Upon that circle, leaving Christian story Here let us cast a more than Transient glance, *Compare The Christian Year, by Keble, passim.—ED. C. C. 1827. A Growth from sinful Nature's bed of weeds !_1 The ministration; while parental Love 5 There, should vain thoughts outspread their wings and fly To meet the coming hours of festal mirth, The tombs-which hear and answer that brief cry, The Infant's notice of his second birth Recal the wandering Soul to sympathy IC With what man hopes from Heaven, yet fears from Earth. ΧΧΙ SPONSORS Published 1832 FATHER! to God himself we cannot give Do Thou, in truth a second Mother, strive 2 5 CATECHISING Tended at need, the adopted Plant may thrive Or seek to make assurance doubly sure. * 2 XXII CATECHISING FROM Little down to Least, in due degree, Some spake, by thought-perplexing fears betrayed ; Had bound the flowers I wore, with faithful tie: ‡ * Compare Macbeth, act IV. scene i. 1. 83.-Ed. W. W., Dec. 7, 1827. This Sonnet was sent by Wordsworth in holograph MS. to Orton Hall in the form indicated in the footnotes, dated Dec. 7, 1827.-ED. See Wordsworth's reference to his Mother in his Autobiographical Memoranda.-ED. Her countenance, phantom-like, doth re-appear: XXIII CONFIRMATION Published 1827 THE Young-ones gathered in from hill and dale, 'Tis passed away; far other thoughts prevail; Upon their conscious selves; their own lips speak 5 ΙΟ XXIV CONFIRMATION CONTINUED I SAW a Mother's eye intensely bent In and for whom the pious Mother felt Things that we judge of by a light too faint: Tell, if ye may, some star-crowned Muse, or Saint! 5 SACRAMENT Tell what rushed in, from what she was relieved— 93 Where dwells a Sister-child? And was power given Even to this Rite? For thus She knelt, and, ere 10 XXV SACRAMENT Published 1827 By chain yet stronger must the Soul be tied : In Heaven, have lifted up their hearts to laud * Compare the tribute to a Daughter, who died within the year after her confirmation, in A Presbyterian Clergyman looking for the Church, by the Rev. Flavel S. Mines, p. 95.-ED. |