An animal delight though dim! I looked, I scanned her o'er and o'er; A flash of something over-bright! So be it!—but let praise ascend To Him who is our Lord and Friend! Who from disease and suffering Hath called for thee a second Spring; Repaid thee for that sore distress By no untimely joyousness; Which makes of thine a blissful state; And cheers thy melancholy Mate! VII. SONNET. 'gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name." THOUGH narrow be that Old Man's cares, and near, The poor Old Man is greater than he seems: An ample sovereignty of eye and ear. Of high astonishment and pleasing fear. He the seven birds hath seen that never part, Seen the SEVEN WHISTLERS in their nightly rounds, And counted them: and oftentimes will start- VOL. II. Y 1 Vill. INSCRIPTION, FOR THE SPOT WHERE THE HERMITAGE STOOD ON ST. HERBERT'S ISLAND, DERWENT-WATER. THIS Island, guarded from profane approach The Deity, with undistracted mind, And meditate on everlasting things. -Stranger! this shapeless heap of stones and earth (Long be its mossy covering undisturbed!) Is reverenced as a vestige of the Abode In which, through many seasons, from the world He dwelt in solitude.-But he had left A Fellow-labourer, whom the good Man loved While o'er the Lake the cataract of Lodore |