He is, if they can find him, fair As after rain the summer air, And looks as lillies do, That are this morning blown! Yet, yet I doubt, he is not known, Yet, yet I fear to have him fully shewn. But he hath eyes so large, and bright, That Love might thence his torches light Tho' Hate had put them out! But then to raise my fears, His voice -what maid so ever hears Will be my rival, tho' she have but ears. I'll tell no more! yet I love him, And he loves me; yet so, That never one low wish did dim In each so free from blame, That both of us would gain new fame, If love's strong fears would let me tell his name! ERRATA. Page 15, erase the 2d stanza, A gust of wind. &c. 18, last line but one: for cloud read load. 35, 1.7: for The r. Brown. 57, 1. 13: r. (They) for (and.) 88, 1. 1 and 4: r. incautum and veniam. 93, last but 1: r. good-natured. 96, 1. 14: for betrayed in r. betrayed by. 98, 1. 4: for four r. three. 108, 1. 15: for were r. was this intolerance in. 119, 1. 3: for Are all r. All are. 126, 1. 16: for Slush r. Hush. 130, 1. 15: for stream r. brock. 133, 1. 6: for thy r. my; and instead of lines 14, 15, and 16, read as follows: How soon to re-unite! And see! they meet, 134, 1. 4: for Beneath r. At. 138, 1.1: r. And to that covert by a silent stream. 1. 2: for o'er r. near. 155, 1. 8: omit the full stop after guest. 168, 1. 9: for livery r. living. 1. 15 for once more r. thou too. 176: from the 9th line r. as follows: O the one Life, within us and abroad, Which meets all Motion, and becomes its soul, Not to love all things in a world so fill'd, Where the breeze warbles and the mute still Air Is Music slumbering on its instrument! And thus, my Love! &c. 180: for the last line but four substitute Praise, praise it, O my soul! oft as thou scann`st. 187, 1. 1: r. Idolo. Page 189, 1. 3: substitute Beauties and Feelings, such as would have been. 1. 6: substitute Friends whom I never more may meet again. 191, 1. 10: for wild r. wide; and the two following lines thus: Less gross than bodily and of such hues As veil the Almighty Spirit. 192, 1. 21: omit the before Light. 195, 1. 10: for guard r. guage. 207, 1. 2: punctuate thus, reading Sound for sounds; 211, 1. 10: for fair day r. Fair-day. 1. 11: for sweet r. wild. 212, 1. 2: for dead r. deep. 1. 3: for Fill'd r. Fill. 1. 5: 213, 1. 4: for fills r. thrills. for traces r. Trances. 217, 1. 12 r. psychological. 240, 1. 15: r. Life, and Life's Effluence, Cloud at once and Shower. 242 in the Note for wind r. Storm-wind. 257, 1.8: for their r. thy. 1. 14 read Ah! that once more I were a careless child! 269, 1.8 r. a mark of interrogation after self. 276. The metre of this ode, especially in the fifth line of each stanza, is written with a foreknowledge of the Tune, and must therefore be read as it would be sung. 282, for 8 and 9, substitute: The substance from its shadow. Infinite Love, Whose Latence is the plenitude of All, Thou with retracted Beams, and Self-eclipse Veiling revealest thy eternal Sun. 283, 1. 20: for rebellions r. rebellious 287, 1. 12: for mortal ministers r. human ministers. 298, 1. 1: for blended with the clouds r. looming on the mist. for 10 and 11 substitute: The power of Justice, like a name all Light, Shone from thy brow; Facile credo, plures esse Naturas invisibiles quam visibiles in rerum universitate. Sed horum omnium familiam quis nobis enarrabit? et gradus et cognationes et discrimina et singulorum munera? Quid agunt? quæ loca habitant? Harum rerum notitiam semper ambivit ingenium humanum, nunquam attigit. Juvat, interea, non diffiteor, quandoque in animo, tanquam in Tabulâ, majoris et melioris mundi imaginem contemplari: ne mens assuefecta hodierniæ vitæ minutiis se contrahat nimis, & tota subsidat in pusillas cogitationes. Sed veritati interea invigilandum est, modusque servandus, ut certa ab incertis, diem a nocte, distinguamus. T. BURNET: Archæol. Phil. p. 68. |