...dashing spray Shall rend the living rocks away. SKETCHES FROM MY JOURNAL. ' Far from the madding croud's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to...cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.' He who weekly observes the splendid parade and stately pomp, which but too often...

...a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame ; Or heap...cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult to protect, Some frail memorial, still erected...

...public ostentation, princely patronage, and the dazzling homage of Genius and Taste, still intent " To heap the shrine of luxury and pride, " With incense, kindled at the Muse's flame." But THE PEOPLE, THE PEOPLE would have remained almost, if not altogether, in the same degraded and...

...struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, !,h, • ;,,°'i,--P. Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense...cool, sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet e'en these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still erected nigh,...

...throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; — 18. The struggling pangs of conscious Truth to hide To quench the blushes of ingenuous Shame ; Or heap...and Pride, With incense kindled at the muse's flame. 19. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray : Along...

...judicious change was suggested by Mason. Verso 19, as the poem now stands, is — ' Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learned...cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.' Verse 24 i ' For thee, who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead, Dost in these lines...

...shut the gates of mercy on mankind ; The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench^the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of...flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray ; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless...

...said, ' How well does this scene harmonize with the sentiments of the poet, ' Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, ' Their sober wishes never...sequestered vale of life 'They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.' ' And would you,' I replied, ' wish to live in solitude, wasting the prime of...

...a ihrme\ And shut the gates of mercy on mankind': The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide', To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame,'; Or heap...incense kindled at the muse's flame'. Far from the madd'ning crowd's ignoble strife', Their sober wishes never learned to stray'; — Along the cool',...

...his endeared wife. Of them and their humble pilgrimage it may be suid, — " Far from the maddening crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned...stray; Along the cool, sequestered vale of life They held the noiseless tenor of their way." The circle in which Joshua performed the duties of life did...