XXXIX. TRANQUILLITY! the sovereign aim wert thou The Tragic Muse thee served with thoughtful vow; Was fondly seized by Sculpture, to restore Peace to the Mourner's soul; but He who wore Communed with that Idea face to face; XL. NUNNERY. THE floods are roused, and will not soon be weary; Down from the Pennine Alps* how fiercely sweeps CROGLIN, the stately Eden's tributary! He raves, or through some moody passage creeps Plotting new mischief-out again he leaps Into broad light, and sends, through regions airy, That voice which soothed the Nuns while on the steeps They knelt in prayer, or sang to blissful Mary. Through crags, and smoothing paths beset with danger, Came studious Taste; and many a pensive Stranger Dreams on the banks, and to the river talks. What change shall happen next to Nunnery Dell? Canal, and Viaduct, and Railway, tell! 13 * The chain of Crossfell, which parts Cumberland and Westmoreland from Northumberland and Durham. XLI. STEAMBOATS, VIADUCTS, AND RAILWAYS. MOTIONS and Means, on land and sea at war To the Mind's gaining that prophetic sense In your harsh features, Nature doth embrace XLII. LOWTHER! in thy majestic Pile are seen And charters won and guarded by the sword Hourly the democratic torrent swells; For airy promises and hopes suborned The strength of backward-looking thoughts is scorned. Fall if ye must, ye Towers and Pinnacles, Will say, Ye disappeared with England's Glory! LONSDALE! it were unworthy of a Guest, Yet be unmoved with wishes to attest How in thy mind and moral frame agree Which, filling, consecrates the human breast. With truth," THE MAGISTRACY SHOWS THE Man ;" |