The very Doe of other years! The pleading look the lady viewed, Lad, by her gushing thoughts subdued, Se melted into tears 4 flood of tears, that flowed apace, Up the happy Creature's face. Oh, moment ever blest! O Pair! Beloved of Heaven, Heaven's choicest care, This was for you a precious greeting, For both a bounteous, fruitful meeting. Joned are they, and the sylvan Doe Can she depart! can she forego, The Lady, once her playful Peer, And now her sainted Mistress dear? And will not Emily receive This lovely Chronicler of things Long past, delights and sorrowings? Love Sufferer! will not she believe The promise in that speaking face, And take this gift of Heaven with grace? That day, the first of a re-union A habitation she had found, A Hut by tufted trees defended, Where Rylstone Brook with Wharf is blended. When Emily by morning light Received and followed by a prayer, Did she behold-saw once Sam will she not, she feels, will bear;- Why tell of mossy rock, or tree, By lurking Dernbrook's pathless side, That calmed her, cheered, and fortified? Of time, and place, and thought, and deed, In her silent Follower's eyes! Who with a power like human Reason Skilled to approach or to retire, - "At the extremity of the parish of Burnsal, the valley How soothed, when in thick bower enclosed, Fair Vision! when it crossed the Maid - What now is left for pain or fear? With her Companion, in such frame Mild, delicious, melancholy; Not sunless gloom or unenlightened, Waar forks off into two great branches, one of which When the Bells of Rylstone played as the name of Wharfdale, to the source of the river; newer is usually called Littondale, but more anciently and properly. Amerdale. Dern-brook, which runs along an Their Sabbath music- “God us ayde!* *On one of the bells of Rylstone church, which seems coeval care valley from the N. W., is derived from a Teutonic with the building of the tower, is this cypher, 3. R. for John dignitying concealment." -DR. WHITAKER. Norton, and the motto, "God us ayde." That was the sound they seemed to speak; May on those holy Bells be seen, Had in her Childhood read the same, Nor lacked She Reason's firmest power; Yet, sometimes, sometimes doth she weep, Bless, tender Hearts, their mutual lot, Here hath she, here before her sight, *Which is thus described by Dr. Whitaker:-"On the plain summit of the hill are the foundations of a strong wall stretching from the S. W. to the N. E. corner of the tower, and to the edge of a very deep glen, From this glen, a ditch, several hundred yards long, runs south to another deep and rugged ravine. On the N. and W. where the banks are very steep, no wall or mound is discoverable, paling being the only fence that could stand on such ground. "From the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, it appears that such pounds for deer, sheep, &c. were far from being uncommon in the south of Scotland. The principle of them was something like that of a wire mouse-trap. On the declivity of a steep hill, the bottom and sides of which were fenced so as to be impassable, a wall was constructed nearly level with the surface on the outside, yet so high within, that without wings it was impossible to escape in the opposite direction. Care was So beautiful the spotless Thrall But most to Bolton's sacred Pile, Nor feared she in the still moonshine And, when she from the abyss returned In love and pity at her feet; Of a new morning, to the nature A mortal Song we frame, by dower We stood before this ruined Pile Her own thoughts loved she; and could bend probably taken that these enclosures should contain bet is acquainted with the habits of these sequacious anima feed than the neighbouring parks or forests; and whe will easily conceive, that if the leader was once tempted descend into the snare, an herd would follow." topped; her thirst was satisfied it what this innocent spring supplied — to the world returned no more, th, she was set free, and died. yal, exalted Emily, at of the blasted family, to the God from whom it came ! In Rylstone Church her mortal frame baried by her Mother's side. ust ginous sunset! and a ray , in her degree, Heaven's grace; bears a memory and a mind far above the law of kind; haring the spots with lonely cheer La her dear Mistress once held dear: eves moet what Emily loved mostbe enclosure of this Church-yard ground; Here wanders like a gliding Ghost, And every Sabbath here is found; Comes with the People when the Bells Here walks amid the mournful waste By fractured cell, or tomb, or vault, Dim gleaming among weeds and grass, ECCLESIASTICAL SKETCHES, IN A SERIES OF SONNETS. "A verse may catch a wandering Soul, that flies ADVERTISEMENT. DRING the month of December, 1820, I accompamuch-loved and honoured Friend in a walk h different parts of his Estate, with a view to fix the Site of a New Church which he intended to It was one of the most beautiful mornings of a son, our feelings were in harmony with the therating influences of the scene; and, such being naturally led to look back upon parents with wonder and gratitude, and on the rose, we were Series, were produced as a private memorial of that morning's occupation. The Catholic Question, which was agitated in Par liament about that time, kept my thoughts in the same course; and it struck me that certain points in the Ecclesiastical History of our Country might advantageously be presented to view in Verse. Accordingly, *I cannot conclude without recommending to the notice of al lovers of beautiful scenery Bolton Abbey and its neighbour hood. This enchanting spot belongs to the Duke of Devonshire; and the superintendence of it has for some years been entrusted to the Rev. William Carr, who has most skilfully opened out its features; and, in whatever he has added, has with hope. Not long afterwards, some of the done justice to the place, by working with an invisible hand of Bet which will be found towards the close of this art in the very spirit of nature. I took up the subject, and what I now offer to the | Did holy Pault a while in Britain dwell, When this work was far advanced, I was agreeably surprised to find that my Friend, Mr. Southey, was engaged, with similar views, in writing a concise History of the Church in England. If our Productions, thus unintentionally coinciding, shall be found to illustrate each other, it will prove a high gratification to me, which I am sure my Friend will participate. W. WORDSWORTH. RYDAL MOUNT, January 24, 1822. And call the Fountain forth by miracle, ECCLESIASTICAL SKETCHES. PART I. FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY INTO PAL DOMINION. I. INTRODUCTION. I, WHO accompanied with faithful pace Sweet pastoral flowers, and laurels that have crowned II. CONJECTURES. If there be prophets on whose spirits rest * For the convenience of passing from one point of the subject to another without shocks of abruptness, this work has taken the shape of a Series of Sonnets: but the Reader, it is hoped, will find that the pictures are often so closely connected as to have jointly the effect of passages of a poem in a form of stanza to which there is no objection but one that bears upon the Poet only Its difficulty III. TREPIDATION OF THE DRUIDS. SCREAMS round the Arch-druid's brow the Searner white As Menai's foam; and tow'rd the mystic ring hear; - they spread the weak, the suffer Receive the faith, and in the hope abide. IV. DRUIDICAL EXCOMMUNICATION. +Stillingfleet adduces many arguments in support of opinion, but they are unconvincing. The latter part of Sonnet refers to a favourite notion of Catholic Writers, Joseph of Arimathea and his companions brought Christ into Britain, and built a rude Church at Glastonbury; all to hereafter, in a passage upon the dissolution of Monaster This water-fowl was, among the Druids, an emblem of th traditions connected with the deluge that made un in part of their mysteries. The Cormorant was a bird of bad cr V. UNCERTAINTY. ES surrounds us; seeking, we are lost Saxon's wilds, amid Brigantian coves, re the solitary Shepherd roves ng the Plain of Sarum, by the Ghost Tae and Shadows of Tradition, crost; here the boatman of the Western Isles gens his course—to mark those holy piles vet survive on bleak Iona's coast. r these, nor monuments of eldest fame, Tuesin's unforgotten lays r characters of Greek or Roman fame, unquestionable Source have led; ag-if eyes that sought the fountain-head, An, upon the growing Rill may gaze. VI. PERSECUTION. STT for Dioclesian's fiery sword VII. & when a storm hath ceased, the birds regain ine the Survivors of this storm renewed in ceremonials they ordain The bill ut St. Alban's must have been an object of great the imagination of the venerable Bede, who thus de#13 a delicate feeling, delightful to meet with in that thers of which are frequent in his works:-"Variis fenbus depictus imò usquequaque vestitus, in quo anduum, nihil præceps, nihil abruptum, quem gé latéque deductum in modum æquoris natura dignum videlicet eum pro insità sibi specie venussùm reddens, qui beati martyris cruore dicaretur." To celebrate their great deliverance; Most feelingly instructed 'mid their fear, VIII. TEMPTATIONS FROM ROMAN REFINEMENTS. Their radiance through the woods, may yet suffice Your love of Him upon whose forehead sate The crown of thorns; whose life-blood flowed, the price Of your redemption. Shun the insidious arts That Rome provides, less dreading from her frown And instruments of deadliest servitude! IX. DISSENSIONS. THAT heresies should strike (if truth be scanned Than heartless misery called them to repel. X. STRUGGLE OF THE BRITONS AGAINST THE BAR- RISE! - they have risen: of brave Aneurin ask |