Obedient, as here taught, to thy com- Beside the afflicted; to sustain with mands. prayer, Jeep not, meek Bride! uplift thy timid That, if the Sufferer rise from his sickbrow. XXVII. THANKSGIVING AFTER CHILDBIRTH. [Composed 1842 (?).-Published 1845.] TOMAN! the Power who left His throne on high, nd deigned to wear the robe of flesh we wear, he Power that thro' the straits of Infancy id pass dependent on maternal care, bed, Hence he will gain a firmer mind, to cope With a bad world, and foil the Tempter's arts. XXIX. THE COMMINATION SERVICE, [Composed 1842 (?).—Published 1845.] SHUN not this Rite, neglected, yea abhorred, By some of unreflecting mind, as calling Man to curse man, (thought monstrous and appalling). is own humanity with Thee will share, 5 leased with the thanks that in His Go thou and hear the threatenings of the People's eye you offerest up for safe Delivery Lord; Listening within his Temple see his sword om Childbirth's perilous throes. And Unsheathed in wrath to strike the ofshould the Heir fender's head, In which the linnet or the thrush might sing, Merry and loud and safe from prying search, Strains offered only to the genial Spring XXXIV. MUTABILITY. EOM low to high doth dissolution climb, And sink from high to low, along a scale If awful notes, whose concord shall not fail; A musical but melancholy chime, XXXVI. EMIGRANT FRENCH CLERGY. [Composed ?.-Published 1827.] EVEN while I speak, the sacred roofs of France Are shattered into dust; and self-exiled From altars threatened, levelled, or defiled, Wander the Ministers of God, as chance Opens a way for life, or consonance 5 Of faith invites. More welcome to no land The fugitives than to the British strand, Which they can hear who meddle not Where priest and layman with the vigil ONASTIC Domes! following my downward way, ntouched by due regret I marked your fall! ow, ruin, beauty, ancient stillness, all ispose to judgments temperate as we lay n our past selves in life's declining day: ras, by discipline of Time made wise, e learn to tolerate the infirmities ad faults of others-gently as he may, with our own the mild Instructor deals, aching us to forget them or forgive. 10 rversely curious, then, for hidden ill hy should we break Time's charitable seals? ice ye were holy, ye are holy still; our spirit freely let me drink, and live. A State whose generous will through For kneeling adoration;-while-abov Broods, visibly portrayed, the my earth is dealt; A State which, balancing herself be Forbear to shape due channels which the Flood Of sacred truth may enter-till it brood Dove, That glimmered like a pine-tree di viewed Through Alpine vapours. Such ap ling rite O'er the wide realm, as o'er the Egyptian | Our Church prepares not, trusting to plain Of daisies, shepherds sate of yore and Shall hymns of praise resound at May-garlands, there let the holy altar And soon, full soon, the lonely Sext stand spade THEY dreamt not of a perishable home Who thus could build. Be mine, in hours of fear Wordsworth appears to have written one at st of these sonnets (XLIII-XLV.), and perhaps ste all three, during a visit to his brother ristopher (Master of Trinity) at Cambridge, Or grovelling thought, to seek a refuge -Dec., 1820.-ED. here; |