And, on the shape of that unmoving man, And named of St. Bartholomew; there, His steadfast face and sightless eyes, I gazed, As if admonished from another world. Though reared upon the base of outward things, 650 Structures like these the excited spirit, mainly see A work completed to our hands, that lays, 680 If any spectacle on earth can do, Builds for herself; scenes different there Above the press and danger of the crowd, are, Full-formed, that take, with small internal Of the wide area, twinkles, is alive 690 With heads; the midway region, and above, Is thronged with staring pictures and huge scrolls, Dumb proclamations of the Prodigies; With chattering monkeys dangling from their poles, And children whirling in their roundabouts; 695 With those that stretch the neck and strain the eyes, And crack the voice in rivalship, the crowd Inviting; with buffoons against buffoons Grimacing, writhing, screaming,-him who grinds The hurdy-gurdy, at the fiddle weaves, Rattles the salt-box, thumps the kettledrum, 701 And him who at the trumpet puffs his cheeks, o times, when half the city shall break The silver-collared Negro with his timbrel, out ll of one passion, vengeance, rage, or fear? executions, to a street on fire, obs, riots, or rejoicings? From these sights 675 ke one,-that ancient festival, the Fair, olden where martyrs suffered in past time, Equestrians, tumblers, women, girls, and 705 All moveables of wonder, from all parts, The Horse of knowledge, and the learned The Stone-eater, the man that swallows fire, Giants, Ventriloquists, the Invisible Girl, The Bust that speaks and moves its goggling eyes, 711 The Wax-work, Clock-work, all the marvellous craft Of education, nor with least delight And comprehensiveness and memory flow, Among all regions; chiefly where appear Of modern Merlins, Wild Beasts, Puppet- Most obviously simplicity and power. Think, how the everlasting streams and woods, 743 Stretched and still stretching far and wide, exalt The roving Indian, on his desert sands: What grandeur not unfelt, what pregnan show Of beauty, meets the sun-burnt Arab eye: And, as the sea propels, from zone zone, Its currents; magnifies its shoals of life Beyond all compass; spreads, and send aloft Armies of clouds,-even so, its powers and aspects Shape for mankind, by principles as fixed Quickens the slumbering mind, and BOOK EIGHTH. RETROSPECT.-LOVE OF NATURE LEADING TO LOVE HAT Sounds are those, Helvellyn, that | A lame man or a blind, the one to beg, are heard The other to make music; hither, too, p to thy summit, through the depth of From far, with basket, slung upon her air scending, as if distance had the power Of arm, hawker's wares-books, pictures, combs, and pins Some aged woman finds her way again, 30 show; owd seems it, solitary hill to thee, And in the lapse of many years may come hid. ad here and there a stranger inter- But one there is, the loveliest of them spersed. ey hold a rustic fair-a festival, ΙΟ all, Some sweet lass of the valley, looking out ch as, on this side now, and now on For gains, and who that sees her would that, peated through his tributary vales, dvellyn, in the silence of his rest, sannually, if clouds towards either ocean 15 wn from their favourite resting-place, or mists And with the ruddy produce she walks round Among the crowd, half pleased with, half ashamed solved, have left him an unshrouded Of her new office, blushing restlessly. head. lightful day it is for all who dwell this secluded glen, and eagerly by give it welcome. Long ere heat of The children now are rich, for the old to day Are generous as the young; and, if content 45 With looking on, some ancient wedded pair Sit in the shade together, while they gaze, › penned in cotes; the chaffering is “A cheerful smile unbends the wrinkled begun. To him who slept at noon and wakes at eve 1." A sumptuous dream of flowery lawns, with domes Of pleasure sprinkled over, shady dells i Thus gaiety and cheerfulness prevail, young, And no one seems to want his share. Rocks, dens, and groves of foliage taught Immense 55 Is the recess, the circumambient world Magnificent, by which they are embraced: They move about upon the soft green turf: to melt Into each other their obsequious hues, Vanished and vanishing in subtle chase, 30 Too fine to be pursued; or standing forta In no discordant opposition, strong How little they, they and their doings, And gorgeous as the colours side by sida Bedded among rich plumes of trope birds; seem, And all that they can further or obstruct! Through utter weakness pitiably dear, 61 As tender infants are: and yet how great! For all things serve them; them the morning light Loves, as it glistens on the silent rocks; And them the silent rocks, which now from high 65 Look down upon them; the reposing clouds; And mountains over all, embracing all: And all the landscape, endlessly enriched With waters running, falling, or asleep But lovelier far than this, the paradi Where I was reared; in Nature's priz tive gifts Favoured no less, and more to e sense Delicious, seeing that the sun and sky, The wild brooks prattling from invisible The elements, and seasons as they chant Fulfilling (could enchantment have done Which they embosom, all without reg more?) 1 From the Malvern Hills of Joseph Cottle. As both may seem, are fastening on heart Insensibly, each with the other's help nd occupations which her beauty adorned, The times, too sage, perhaps too proud, nd Shepherds were the men that pleased These lighter graces; and the rural ways eft, even to us toiling in this late day, licity, in Grecian song renowned; 135 Forms; 165 Of this I heard, and saw enough to make Imagination restless ;) nor was free Myself from frequent perils; nor were tales Wanting, the tragedies of former times, om house and home, the courtly band Hazards and strange escapes, of which whose fortunes the rocks tered, with Shakspeare's genius, the Immutable, and everflowing streams, wild woods 170 Where'er I roamed, were speaking monu |