CONTENTS. Written at the Request of Sir George Beaumont, Bart., and in his Name, for an Urn, placed by him at the Written with a Pencil upon a Stone in the Wall of the House (an Out-house), on the Island at Grasmere 152660 I.-Hopes what are they?-Beads of morning 10 II.-Pause, Traveller! whosoe'er thou be III.-Hast thou seen, with flash incessant IV. Troubled long with warring notions Weep not, beloved Friends! nor let the air. Perhaps some needful service of the State O Thou who movest onward with a mind INSCRIPTIONS. I. IN THE GROUNDS OF COLEORTON, THE SEAT OF SIR GEORGE BEAUMONT, BART., LEICESTERSHIRE. 1808. [IN the grounds of Coleorton these verses are engraved on a stone placed near the Tree, which was thriving and spreading when I saw it in the summer of 1841.] THE embowering rose, the acacia, and the pine, If but the Cedar thrive that near them stands, By interchange of knowledge and delight. May Nature's kindliest powers sustain the Tree, And when its potent branches, wide out-thrown, Not mindless of that distant age renowned When Inspiration hovered o'er this ground, VOL. V. The haunt of him who sang how spear and shield And of that famous Youth, full soon removed II. IN A GARDEN OF THE SAME. [THIS Niche is in the sandstone-rock in the winter-garden at Coleorton, which garden, as has been elsewhere said, was made under our direction out of an old unsightly quarry. While the labourers were at work, Mrs. Wordsworth, my Sister, and I used to amuse ourselves occasionally in scooping this seat out of the soft stone. It is of the size, with something of the appearance, of a Stall in a Cathedral. This inscription is not engraven, as the former and the two following are, in the grounds.] OFT is the medal faithful to its trust When temples, columns, towers, are laid in dust; That things obscure and small outlive the great: |