XVII. PICTURE OF DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN, at HAMILTON PALACE. AMID a fertile region green with wood And fresh with rivers, well doth it become To naturalise this tawny Lion brood; Children of Art, that claim strange brotherhood, Couched in their Den, with those that roam at large Over the burning wilderness, and charge The wind with terror while they roar for food. Yet is the Prophet calm, nor would the cave XVIII. THE AVON (a feeder of the Annan). AVON a precious, an immortal name! Yet is it one that other Rivulets bear Like this unheard-of, and their channels wear Like this contented, though unknown to Fame: Of streams to Nature's love, where'er they flow; Shrink from thy name, pure Rill, with unpleased ears! XIX. SUGGESTED BY A VIEW FROM AN EMINENCE IN INGLEWOOD FOREST. THE forest huge of ancient Caledon That swept from hill to hill, from flood to flood: Nor wants the holy Abbot's gliding Shade XX. HART'S-HORN TREE, NEAR PENRITH. HERE stood an Oak, that long had borne affixed Whom the dog Hercules pursued his part Each desperately sustaining, till at last Both sank and died, the life-veins of the chased That wants not, even in rudest breasts, a seat; Tree!* * See Note, p. 43. XXI. COUNTESS'S PILLAR. [On the roadside between Penrith and Appleby, there stands a pillar with the following inscription : ، This pillar was erected, in the year 1656, by Anne Countess Dowager of Pembroke, &c. for a memorial of her last parting with her pious mother, Margaret Countess Dowager of Cumberland, on the 2d of April, 1616; in memory whereof she hath left an annuity of 4l. to be distributed to the poor of the parish of Brougham, every 2d day of April for ever, upon the stone table placed hard by. Laus Deo!"] WHILE the Poor gather round, till the end of time Flower than the loveliest of the vernal prime Lovelier - transplanted from heaven's purest clime ! Charity never faileth:" on that creed, 66 More than on written testament or deed, |