XVII. CAPTIVITY. "As the cold aspect of a sunless way Strikes through the Traveller's frame with deadlier chill, Oft as appears a grove, or obvious hill, Glistening with unparticipated ray, Or shining slope where he must never stray; On the crushed heart a heavier burthen lay. O be my spirit, like my thraldom, strait; And, like mine eyes that stream with sorrow, blind!" XVIII. BROOK! whose society the Poet seeks And whom the curious Painter doth pursue Thee, and not thee thyself, I would not do Like Grecian Artists, give thee human cheeks, With purer robes than those of flesh and blood, Unwearied joy, and life without its cares. XIX. COMPOSED ON THE BANKS OF A ROCKY STREAM. DOGMATIC Teachers, of the snow-white fur! Might cool; and, as the Genius of the flood Stoops willingly to animate and spur Each lighter function slumbering in the brain, With subtle speculations, haply vain, But surely less so than your far-fetched themes! XX. THIS, AND THE TWO FOLLOWING, WERE SUGGESTED BY MR. W. PURE element of waters! wheresoe'er Thou dost forsake thy subterranean haunts, Green herbs, bright flowers, and berry-bearing plants, Rise into life and in thy train appear And, through the sunny portion of the year, Swift insects shine, thy hovering pursuivants : In man's perturbed soul thy sway benign; *** Of central earth, where tortured Spirits pine For grace and goodness lost, thy murmurs melt Their anguish, and they blend sweet songs with thine.* nasit mm. 1on W * Waters (as Mr. Westall informs us in the letter-press prefixed to his admirable views) are invariably found to flow through these caverns. Doufoushetik tuo nulis va dest Cistne Juti }༥ XXI. -ROO MALHAM COVE. WAS the aim frustrated by force or guile, TË When giants scooped from out the rocky ground -Tier under tier this semicirque profound? (Giants the same who built in Erin's isles asT That Causeway with incomparable toil bio T O, had this vast theatric structure wounds of W With finished sweep into a perfect round,on, sd 10 No mightier work had gained the plausive smiles. (T Of all-beholding Phoebus ! But, alas, uni bab Vain earth!false world! Foundations must be laid In Heaven; for, mid the wreck of is and was, fí Things incomplete and purposes betrayed gnoT Make sadder transits o'er truth's mystic glass Than noblest objects utterly decayed of sono bat. |