Morn into noon did pass, noon into eve, And the old day was welcome as the young, As welcome, and as beautiful, in sooth More beautiful, as being a thing more holy: To thy large heart and humble mind, that cast XXXIV. HARK! 't is the Thrush, undaunted, undeprest, Exulting Warbler! eased a fretted brain, XXXV. "T IS He whose yester-evening's high disdain Beat back the roaring storm, but how subdued His day-break note, a sad vicissitude! Does the hour's drowsy weight his glee restrain? Pleased to renounce, does this dear Thrush attune He can pour forth his spirit. In heaven above, XXXVI. O WHAT a Wreck! how changed in mien and speech! Yet though dread Powers, that work in mys tery, spin Entanglings of the brain, though shadows stretch O'er the chilled heart reflect; far, far within Hers is a holy Being, freed from Sin. She is not what she seems, a forlorn wretch, But delegated Spirits comfort fetch To her from heights that Reason may not win. Like Children, she is privileged to hold Divine communion; both to live and move, in her our sins and sorrows past. XXXVII. INTENT on gathering wool from hedge and brake, Yon busy Little-ones rejoice that soon A poor old Dame will bless them for the boon: Than will hereafter move them, if they make To pleasure snatched for reckless pleasure's sake. The silent thoughts that search for steadfast light, Love from her depths, and Duty in her might, And Faith, these only yield secure relief. March 8th, 1842. XXXVIII. A PLEA FOR AUTHORS, MAY, 1838. FAILING impartial measure to dispense For natural rights, a mockery and a shame; From mind and spirit, grudge a short-lived fence. XXXIX. VALEDICTORY SONNET. Closing the Volume of Sonnets published in 1838. SERVING no haughty Muse, my hands have here Disposed some cultured Flowerets (drawn from spots Where they bloomed singly, or in scattered knots), And that, so placed, my Nurslings may requite Through It have won a passage to thy heart; XL. TO THE REV. CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, D.D., MASTER OF HARROW SCHOOL, After the perusal of his Theophilus Anglicanus, recently published. ENLIGHTENED Teacher, gladly from thy hand may these lessons be with profit scanned To thy heart's wish, thy labor blest by God! So the bright faces of the young and gay Shall look more bright, the happy, happier still; Catch, in the pauses of their keenest play, Motions of thought which elevate the will, XLI. TO THE PLANET VENUS, Upon its approximation (as an Evening Star) to the Earth, Jan. 1838. WHAT strong allurement draws, what spirit guides, Thee, Vesper! brightening still, as if the nearer |