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From thy remonstrance would be no

appeal;

Of noontide suns:-and even the beam that play

And glance, while wantonly the roug wind blows,

But to promote and fortify the weal 5 Of her own Being is her paramount end; A truth which they alone shall compre- Are seldom free to touch the moss tha hend grows Who shun the mischief which they cannot Upon that roof, amid embowering gloom heal. The very image framing of a Tomb, Peace in these feverish times is sovereign In which some ancient Chieftain find bliss: Here, with no thirst but what the stream Among the lonely mountains.-Live, y

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can slake, And startled only by the rustling brake, Cool air I breathe; while the unincumbered Mind,

By some weak aims at services assigned To gentle Natures, thanks not Heaven amiss.

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trees!

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oposed December, 1815.-Published February 11, 1816 (The Examiner); vol. of 1816.]

HILE not a leaf seems faded; while the fields,

ith ripening harvest prodigally fair,

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brightest sunshine bask; this nipping [Composed February, 1819.—Published in Peter

air,

Bell vol., 1819.]

nt from some distant elime where ONE who was suffering tumult in his soul Winter wields

icy scimitar, a foretaste yields

bitter change, and bids the flowers beware;

d whispers to the silent birds, "Prepare

Yet failed to seek the sure relief of prayer,
Went forth-his course surrendering to

the care

Of the fierce wind, while mid-day lightnings prowl

Insidiously, untimely thunders growl; 5 ainst the threatening foe your trustiest While trees, dim-seen, in frenzied numshields."

me, who under kindlier laws belong

bers, tear

The lingering remnant of their yellow hair,

pave

And shivering wolves, surprised with Of genuine crystals, pure as those th
darkness, howl
As if the sun were not. He raised his eye The azure brooks, where Dian joys
Soul-smitten; for, that instant did appear
Large space (mid dreadful clouds) of

purest sky,

An azure disc-shield of Tranquillity;
Invisible, unlooked-for, minister
Of providential goodness ever nigh!

XVI.

TO A SNOWDROP.

[Composed ?.-Published 1819.]

II

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lave

Her spotless limbs; and ventured explore

Dim shades-for reliques, upon Leth

shore,

Cast up at random by the sullen wave..
To female hands the treasures were 1

signed;

And lo this Work!-a grotto bright at clear

From stain or taint; in which thy blam less mind

May feed on thoughts though pensive n

austere;

Or, if thy deeper spirit be inclined
To holy musing, it may enter here.

XVIII.

TO LADY BEAUMONT.

[Composed January or February, 1807.-P lished 1807.]

Whose zeal outruns his promise! Blue- LADY! the songs of Spring were in t

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Of a bedimming sleep, or as a lamp

Of mountains, silent, dreary, motionless.
The lake below reflects it not; the sky
Muffled in clouds, affords no company
To mitigate and cheer its loneliness.
Yet, round the body of that joyless Thir
Which sends so far its melancholy light
Perhaps are seated in domestic ring
A gay society with faces bright,
Conversing, reading, laughing;—or the
sing,

While hearts and voices in the song unit

XXV.

[Composed .--Published 1820.] THE stars are mansions built by Nature hand,

And, haply, there the spirits of the blest Dwell, clothed in radiance, their in mortal vest;

Huge Ocean shows, within his yello strand,

A habitation marvellously planned, For life to occupy in love and rest; All that we see is dome, or vault, nest,

Or fortress, reared at Nature's sage com

mand.

Glad thought for every season! but th Spring

Gave it while cares were weighing on m

heart,

'Mid song of birds, and insects murmu

ing;

And while the youthful year's prolif

art

Sullenly 2 glaring through sepulchral Of bud, leaf, blade, and flower-wa

damp,

So burns yon Taper 'mid a black recess

1 This poem originally consisted of fifteen lines: it was shortened and classed as a Sonnet in ed. 1820. See Supplement, page 629-ED.

2 The collective edd. of the Poems from 1827

fashioning

Abodes where self-disturbance hath

part.

XXVI.

[Composed ?.-Published 1835.] DESPONDING Father! mark this altera bough,

to 1849 read "suddenly"; edd. 1815, 1820, and the Sonnet-vol. of 1838 read "sullenly." The latter is undoubtedly the word intended by So beautiful of late, with sunshin

Wordsworth. Cf. "sullen fire," Misc. Son. II. vi.

1. 7 (edd. 1819, 1820, 1827); "sullen star," Excur- Or sion IV. 487; and the "sullen light," ie. the faintly glowing wick of an extinguished candle, spoken of in Wordsworth's reply to the letter of Its Mathetes (The Friend, iii. 48, ed. 1818).-ED.

warmed,

moist with dews; what more un sightly now,

blossoms shrivelled, and its fruit, formed,

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