Hath reached the encincture of that gloomy sea When the first Ship sailed for the Golden Fleece- To fix in heaven her shape distinct with stars. COMPOSED IN ONE OF THE CATHOLIC Doomed as we are our native dust To wet with many a bitter shower, The altar, to deride the fane, Where simple Sufferers bend, in trust I love, where spreads the village lawn, Where'er we roam-along the brink And feel, if we would know. ΙΟ 5 ΤΟ 15 WALTON'S BOOK OF LIVES. There are no colours in the fairest sky So fair as these. The feather, whence the pen In Statesman, Priest, and humble Citizen : Around meek Walton's heavenly memory. 5 ΙΟ SCORN NOT THE SONNET. Scorn not the Sonnet; Critic, you have frowned a k Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound; A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound; .~ Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned 5 His visionary brow; a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways; and, when a damp C GLAD SIGHT WHEREVER NEW WITH OLD. Glad sight wherever new with old Is joined through some dear homeborn tie; Depends upon that mystery. Vain is the glory of the sky, The beauty vain of field and grove, We gaze, we also learn to love. 5 THE UNREMITTING VOICE OF NIGHTLY The unremitting voice of nightly streams That wastes so oft, we think, its tuneful powers, If neither soothing to the worm that gleams Through dewy grass, nor small birds hushed in bowers, Nor unto silent leaves and drowsy flowers, That voice of unpretending harmony (For who what is shall measure by what seems 5 THE UNREMITTING VOICE OF NIGHTLY STREAMS 77 To be, or not to be, Or tax high Heaven with prodigality?) Wants not a healing influence that can creep ΙΟ 15 SELECTIONS FROM THE PRELUDE. Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows Within my mind, should e'er have borne a part, The calm existence that is mine when I Am worthy of myself! Praise to the end! 5 ΙΟ Thanks to the means which Nature deigned to employ ; Whether her fearless visitings, or those That came with soft alarm, like hurtless light More palpable, as best might suit her aim. Straight I unloosed her chain, and stepping in Until they melted all into one track Of sparkling light. But now, like one who rows, The horizon's utmost boundary; far above I dipped my oars into the silent lake, 15 20 25 30 35 And, as I rose upon the stroke, my boat Went heaving through the water like a swan ; Upreared its head. I struck and struck again, 40 |