Gently along; regardless who shall chide Nor would permit the thin smoke t If the heavens smile, and leave us free to glide, Happy Associates breathing air remote From trivial cares. But, Fancy and the Muse, escape, Nor those bright sunbeams to forsake t day; Which stopped that band of travellers their way, Why have I crowded this small bark with Ere they were lost within the sha 5 In his still haunt on Bagdad's summit "WHY, Minstrel, these untuneful m high; He who stood visible to Mirza's eye, spread! ΙΟ The visionary Arches are not there, Yet sacred is to me this Mountain's head, Whence I have risen, uplifted on the breeze Of harmony, above all earthly care. IX. UPON THE SIGHT OF A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE, could stay Of mortal sympathy; what wonder the Yon cloud, and fix it in that glorious That the poor Harp distempered mus shape; 1 See the "Vision of Mirza" in the "Spectator." yields To its sad Lord, far from his nati fields? Whose pen, the mysteries of the rod and See Milton's Sonnet, beginning, “A Book wa line writ of late called 'Tetrachordon.'" Unfolding, did not fruitlessly exhort 4 A BOOK came forth of late, called PETER To reverend watching of each still report That Nature utters from her rural shrine. Meek, nobly versed in simple discipline BELL; Not negligent the style; the matter?good men thee appear not an unmeaning voice, XX. TO S. H. [Composed ?.-Published 1827.] EXCUSE is needless when with love sincere My nerves from no such murmur shrink,— Soft as the Dorhawk's to a distant ear, 5 When twilight shades darken the mountain's head. Even She who toils to spin our vital thread Might smile on work, O Lady, once so dear To household virtues. Venerable Art, up that grey-haired forehead, and Torn from the Poor! yet shall kind Hea rejoice the just tribute of thy Poet's pen! XIX. [Composed ?.-Published 1819.] IEF, thou hast lost an ever-ready friend that the cottage Spinning-wheel is mute; d Care-a comforter that best could suit froward mood, and softliest reprehend; d Love-a charmer's voice, that used to lend, 5 ore efficaciously than aught that flows That saw the Saviour in his human frame Rise from the dead, erewhile the Cottagedame om harp or lute, kind influence to Put on fresh raiment-till that hour uncompose ethrobbing pulse-else troubled without end: en Joy could tell, Joy craving truce and rest And she who span it culled the daintiest fleece, om her own overflow, what power In thoughtful reverence to the Prince of sedate emantling triumphs of a day too These humble props disdained not! O blest. green dales! 10 Sad may I be who heard your sabbath Shed on the chosen vale a sun-bright da chime When Art's abused inventions were un known; Kind Nature's various wealth was all your own; And benefits were weighed in Reason's scales ! XXII. DECAY OF PIETY. [Composed?.-Published 1827.] Yet no proud gladness would the Bri display Even for such promise:-serious is h face, Modest her mien; and she, whose though keep pace With gentleness, in that becoming way Will thank you. Faultless does the M appear; No disproportion in her soul, no strife: But, when the closer view of wedded li Orr have I seen, ere Time had ploughed Hath shown that nothing human my cheek, Matrons and Sires-who, punctual to the call Of their loved Church, on fast or festival Through the long year the House of Prayer would seek: By Christmas snows, by visitation bleak 5 Of Easter winds, unscared, from hut or hall They came to lowly bench or sculptured stall, But with one fervour of devotion meek. I see the places where they once were known, And ask, surrounded even by kneeling crowds, ΙΟ be clear From frailty, for that insight may Wife To her indulgent Lord become more de XXIV. COMPOSED ON THE EVE OF THE MARRIAGE Of outward change, there blooms a deat less flower, That breathes on earth the air of paradis XXV. FROM THE SAME. II. [Composed probably 1805.-Published 180:1 No mortal object did these eyes behold When first they met the placid light thine, And my Soul felt her destiny divine, |