I cursed Man for his spaniel heart,

His bounded brain, his lust of pelf—

Alas! each crime of field and mart

Lived in a dark disease of self.

I saw the smiles and mean salaams
Of slavish hearts; I heard the cry
Of maddened people's throwing palms
Before each cheered and timbreled lie.
I loathed the brazen front and brag
Of bloated time; in self-defence

Withdrew I to my lonely crag,
And fortress of indifference.

But Nature is revenged on those
Who turn from her to lonely days:

Contentment, like the speedwell, blows

Along the common-beaten ways.

The dead and thick green-mantled moats

That gird my house resembled me,

Or some long-weeded hull that rots

Upon a glazing tropic sea.

And madness ever round us lies,

The final bourne and end of thought;

And Pleasure shuts her glorious eyes
At one cold glance and melts to nought;
And Nature cannot hear us moan;

She smiles in sunshine, raves in rain—

The music breathed by Love alone

Can ease the world's immortal pain.

The sun for ever hastes sublime,
Waved onward by Orion's lance;
Obedient to the spheral chime,

Across the world the seasons dance;

The flaming elements ne'er bewail

Their iron bounds, their less or more;

The sea can drown a thousand sail,

Yet rounds the pebbles on the shore.

I looked with pride on what I'd done,

I counted merits o'er anew,

In presence of the burning sun,

Which drinks me like a drop of dew.
A lofty scorn I dared to shed

On human passions, hopes, and jars,
I-standing on the countless dead,
And pitied by the countless stars.

But mine is now a humbled heart,
My lonely pride is weak as tears;
No more I seek to stand apart,
A mocker of the rolling years.
Imprisoned in this wintry clime,
I've found enough, O Lord of breath,
Enough to plume the feet of time,
Enough to hide the eyes of death.

R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL.

RECTOR OF EVERSLEY, AND CANON OF MIDDLEHAM.

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