Turn a broad front full on his flattering beams:
Others do rather from their notice shrink,
Loving the dewy shade, a humble Band,
Modest and sweet, a Progeny of earth,
Congenial with thy mind and character,
High-born Augusta!

Towers, and stately Groves,

Bear witness for me; thou, too, Mountain-stream!
From thy most secret haunts; and ye Parterres,
Which she is pleased and proud to call her own;
Witness how oft upon my noble Friend

Mute offerings, tribute from an inward sense
Of admiration and respectful love,

Have waited, till the affections could no more
Endure that silence, and broke out in song;
Snatches of music taken up and dropt
Like those self-solacing those under notes
Trilled by the redbreast, when autumnal leaves
Are thin upon the bough. Mine, only mine,
The pleasure was, and no one heard the praise,
Checked, in the moment of its issue checked;
And reprehended by a fancied blush
From the pure qualities that called it forth.

Thus Virtue lives debarred from Virtue's meed; Thus, Lady, is retiredness a veil

That, while it only spreads a softening charm
O'er features looked at by discerning eyes,
Hides half their beauty from the common gaze;
And thus, even on the exposed and breezy hill
Of lofty station, female goodness walks,
When side by side with lunar gentleness,
As in a cloister. Yet the grateful Poor
(Such the immunities of low estate,
Plain Nature's enviable privilege,
Her sacred recompence for many wants)
Open their hearts before Thee, pouring out
All that they think and feel, with tears of joy;

And benedictions not unheard in Heaven:

And friend in the ear of friend, where speech is free To follow truth, is eloquent as they.

Then let the Book receive in these prompt lines A just memorial; and thine eyes consent To read that they, who mark thy course, behold A life declining with the golden light

Of summer, in the season of sere leaves ;

See cheerfulness undamped by stealing Time;

See studied kindness flow with easy stream,

Illustrated with inborn courtesy ;

And an habitual disregard of self

Balanced by vigilance for others' weal.

And shall the verse not tell of lighter gifts
With these ennobling attributes conjoined
And blended, in peculiar harmony,

By Youth's surviving spirit? What agile grace!
A nymph-like liberty, in nymph-like form,
Beheld with wonder; whether floor or path
Thou tread, or on the managed steed art borne,
Fleet as the shadows, over down or field,

Driven by strong winds at play among the clouds.

Yet one word more - one farewell word- a wish Which came, but it has passed into a prayer, That, as thy sun in brightness is declining, So, at an hour yet distant for their sakes Whose tender love, here faltering on the way Of a diviner love, will be forgiven, So may it set in peace, to rise again For everlasting glory won by faith.

THE SOMNAMBULIST.

1.

LIST, ye who pass by Lyulph's Tower *

At eve; how softly then

Doth Aira-force, that torrent hoarse,

Speak from the woody glen!

Fit music for a solemn vale!

And holier seems the ground To him who catches on the gale The spirit of a mournful tale,

Embodied in the sound.

* A pleasure-house built by the late Duke of Norfolk upon

the banks of Ullswater.

District for Water-fall.

FORCE is the word used in the Lake

M

2.

Not far from that fair site whereon

The Pleasure-house is reared,

As Story says, in antique days,
A stern-brow'd house appeared;

Foil to a jewel rich in light

There set, and guarded well; Cage for a bird of plumage bright, Sweet-voiced, nor wishing for a flight Beyond her native dell.

3.

To win this bright bird from her cage,
To make this gem their own,
Came Barons bold, with store of gold,
And Knights of high renown;
But one she prized, and only One;

Sir Eglamore was he;

Full happy season, when was known,

Ye Dales and Hills! to you alone

Their mutual loyalty