III. Troubled long with warring notions, What avails the kindly shelter Parching Summer hath no warrant Thus, dishonouring not her station, IV. Not seldom, clad in radiant vest, The smoothest seas will sometimes prove, The umbrageous oak, in pomp outspread But Thou art true, incarnate Lord, Thy smile is sure, thy plighted word 1818. SMALL service is true service while it lasts! Of humblest friends, bright creature, scorn not one, The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun. II. "MY HEART LEAPS UP." My heart leaps up when I behold So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man; The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. III. TO A YOUNG LADY WHO HAD BEEN REPROACHED FOR TAKING DEAR child of Nature, let them rail! A harbour and a hold, Where thou, a wife and friend, shalt see Thy own delightful days, and be A light to young and old. 1834. 1802. 1805. There healthy as a shepherd-boy, Thou, while thy babes around thee cling, Thy thoughts and feelings shall not die, But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, IV. FROM THE TABLES TURNED. SWEET is the lore which Nature brings; Misshapes the beauteous forms of things: Enough of science and of art; Close up these barren leaves: Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives. V. FROM EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY. THE eye, it cannot choose but see; Nor less I deem that there are powers Which of themselves our minds impress; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum 1798. |