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And hope of endless peace in me grew But Thee1, deep buried in the silent tomb, bold: That spot which no vicissitude can find?

eaven-born, the Soul a heavenward Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my Course must hold;

legend the visible world she soars to seek For what delights the sense is false and weak)

Form, the universal mould.

mind

5

But how could I forget thee? Through

what power,

Even for the least division of an hour,
Have I been so beguiled as to be blind
To my most grievous loss!-That thought's
return

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se man, I affirm, can find no rest that which perishes: nor will he lend heart to aught which doth on time depend. sense, unbridled will, and not true Save one, one only, when I stood forlove,

Was the worst pang that sorrow ever bore,

II

lorn,

kills the soul: love betters what Knowing my heart's best treasure was no

is best,

more;

en here below, but more in heaven That neither present time, nor years un

above.

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Pleasing remembrance of a thought fore- And worshipp'st at the Temple's im

gone;

A lovely Beauty in a summer grave!

XXIX.

NOVEMBER, 1836.

II.

[Composed November, 1836.-Published 1837.] EVEN So for me a Vision sanctified The sway of Death; long ere mine eyes had seen

Thy countenance-the still rapture of thy

mien

When thou, dear Sister! wert become
Death's Bride:

No trace of pain or languor could abide 5
That change:-age on thy brow was
smoothed-thy cold

Wan cheek at once was privileged to
unfold

A loveliness to living youth denied.
Oh! if within me hope should e'er decline,
The lamp of faith, lost Friend! too faintly
burn;
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Then may that heaven-revealing smile of
thine,

The bright assurance, visibly return:
And let my spirit in that power divine
Rejoice, as, through that power, it ceased

to mourn.

XXX.
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[Composed August, 1802.-Published 1807.]

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IT is a beauteous evening, calm and free,Some lying fast at anchor in the road,"

The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquillity; 4
The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the
Sea:

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Listen! the mighty Being is awake,
And doth with his eternal motion make
A sound like thunder-everlastingly.
Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest with
me here,

If thou appear untouched by solemn
thought,

Some veering up and down, one ka

not why.

A goodly Vessel did I then espy
Come like a giant from a haven broad
And lustily along the bay she strode,
Her tackling rich, and of apparel high
This Ship was nought to me, nor I to
Yet I pursued her with a Lover's look
This Ship to all the rest did I prefer:
When will she turn, and whither: $
will brook

10 No tarrying; where She comes the win
must stir:

Thy nature is not therefore less divine:
Thou liest in, Abraham's bosom all the On went She, and due north her jour

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XXXIII.

[Composed?.-Published 1807.]

Where even the motion of an Angel's

wing

Would interrupt the intense tranquillity

THE world is too much with us; late and Of silent hills, and more than silent sky.

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Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; 10 might I, standing on this pleasant lea, lave glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

Lave sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
hear old Triton blow his wreathed
horn.

XXXIV.
Composed?.-Published 1823 (Joanna Baillie's
Poetic Miscellanies); ed. 1827.

VOLANT Tribe of Bards on earth are
found,

Tho, while the flattering Zephyrs round them play,

In "coignes of vantage" hang their nests of clay;

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Who may respect my name that I to thee Low quickly from that aery hold un- Owed many years of early liberty. bound,

This care was thine when sickness did condemn

Thy youth to hopeless wasting, root and

stem

Fast for oblivion! To the solid ground 5 nature trusts the Mind that builds for aye; 5 bonvinced that there, there only, she can That I, if frugal and severe, might stray lay Where'er I liked; and finally array ecure foundations. As the year runs My temples with the Muse's diadem. Hence, if in freedom I have loved the

round,

part she toils within the chosen ring; While the stars shine, or while day's

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It gladdens me, O worthy, short-lived, Such place to me is sometimes like Youth! dream

To think how much of this will be thy Or map of the whole world: thought

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Shakspeare unlocked his heart; the [Composed December 1815.-Published Febru

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4, 1816 (The Champion); March 31, 1816 (1 Examiner); vol. of 1816.

HIGH is our calling, Friend!-Creati

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Yet a rich guerdon waits on minds that To the flying moments, and is seen no dare,

If aught be in them of immortal seed,
And reason govern that audacious flight
Which heavenward they direct.-Then
droop not thou,
Emneously renewing a sad vow

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more.

Angels and gods! We struggle with our

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