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XXXII.

COMPOSED ON THE BANKS OF A ROCKY STREAM.

[Composed?.-Published 1820.]

DOGMATIC Teachers, of the snow-whit fur!

Ye wrangling Schoolmen, of the scarle hood!

Who, with a keenness not to be with stood,

Press the point home, or falter an demur,

Checked in your course by many a t ing burr;

These natural council-seats your blood

Might cool; and, as the Genius
flood

Stoops willingly to animate and s
Each lighter function slumbering

brain,

Yon eddying balls of foam, these arrow gleams

That o'er the pavement of the surgin streams

Welter and flash, a synod might detain With subtle speculations, haply vain, But surely less so than your far-fetche themes!

XXXIII.

THIS AND THE TWO FOLLOWING WEB SUGGESTED BY MR. W. WESTALL'S VIEW OF THE CAVES, ETC., IN YORKSHIRE.

[Composed 1818.-Published January, 1819 (Black

wood's Magazine); Peter Bell vol, 1819] PURE element of waters! wheresoe'er Thou dost forsake thy subterraneat haunts,

Channels for tears; no Naiad shouldst Green herbs, bright flowers, and berry

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With purer robes than those of flesh and And, if thy bounty fail, the forest pants: blood,

And hath bestowed on thee a safer good

And hart and hind and hunter with his spear

Unwearied joy, and life without its cares. Languish and droop together. Nor unfe

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Have gained a sanction from thy falling The air of liberty, the light of truth;

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Much have ye suffered from Time's gnav

ing tooth:

Yet, O ye spires of Oxford! domes an towers!

Gardens and groves! your presence ove powers

The soberness of reason; till, in sooth, Transformed, and rushing on a bol exchange

I slight my own beloved Cam, to range Where silver Isis leads my stripling fee Pace the long avenue, or glide adown The stream-like windings of that gloriot street

An eager Novice robed in fluttering gown

III.

OXFORD, MAY 30, 1820. [Composed 1820.-Published 1820.) SHAME on this faithless heart! that coul

allow

Such transport, though but for a m ment's space;

Not while-to aid the spirit of the places The crescent moon clove with its glitter ing prow

The clouds, or night-bird sang from shad bough; T

But in plain daylight:- She, too, at my side,

Who, with her heart's experience satisfied Maintains inviolate its slightest vow!! Sweet Fancy! other gifts must I receive Proofs of a higher sovereignty I claim; Take from her brow the withering flower of eve,

And to that brow life's morning wreath

restore;

Let her be comprehended in the frame Of these illusions, or they please no mora

IV.

RECOLLECTION OF THE PORTRAIT OF KING HENRY THE EIGHTH, TRINITY LODGE, CAMBRIDGE.

[Composed ?.-Published 1827.] THE imperial Stature, the colossal stride, Are yet before me; yet do I behold The broad full visage, chest of amplest

mould,

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