Of soul impetuous, and the bashful maid Are opening round her; those of middle age, Cast down while confident in strength they stand, Like pillars fixed more firmly, as might seem, And more secure, by very weight of all That, for support, rests on them; the decayed Observed the liberating stroke, and blessed. "And whence that tribute? wherefore these Not from the naked Heart alone of Man Or gladness). No," the philosophic Priest Of feeling to produce them, without aid From the pure soul, the soul sublime and pure ; With her two faculties of eye and ear, The one by which a creature, whom his sins Have rendered prone, can upward look to heaven; The other that empowers him to perceive The voice of Deity, on height and plain, Whispering those truths in stillness, which the To the four quarters of the winds proclaims. Thus are they born, thus fostered, thus maintained; Embodied and established these high truths The being one, and one the element. From the beginning, hollowed out and scooped This is the genuine course, the aim, and end ARGUMENT. Poet's address to the State and Church of England. - The Pastor not inferior to the ancient Worthies of the Church.He begins his Narratives with an instance of unrequited Love. - Anguish of mind subdued, and how. -The lonely Miner. An instance of perseverance. - Which leads by contrast to an example of abused talents, irresolution, and weakness. Solitary, applying this covertly to his own case, asks for an instance of some Stranger, whose dispositions may have led him to end his days here. - Pastor, in answer, gives an account of the harmonizing influence of Solitude upon two men of opposite principles, who had encountered agitations in public life. The rule by which Peace may be obtained expressed, and where. Solitary hints at an overpowering Fatality. — Answer of the Pastor. What subjects he will exclude from his Narratives. Conversation upon this. - Instance of an unamiable character, a Female, and why given. - Contrasted with this, a meek sufferer, from unguarded and betrayed love. — Instance of heavier guilt, and its consequences to the Offender. - With this instance of a Marriage Contract broken is contrasted one of a Widower, evidencing his faithful affection towards his deceased Wife by his care of their female Children. THE CHURCHYARD AMONG THE MOUNTAINS. HAIL to the crown by Freedom shaped, to gird Made to the spiritual fabric of her Church; And O ye swelling hills, and spacious plains! Besprent from shore to shore with steeple-towers, |