The Minstrels played their Christmas tune "Child of the clouds! remote from every taint" "Take, cradled Nursling of the mountain, take" "O Mountain Stream! the Shepherd and his Cot" Sacred Religion! mother of form and fear' "My frame hath often trembled with delight" "The old inventive Poets, had they seen Return, Content! for fondly I pursued" "I rose while yet the cattle, heat-opprest Not hurled precipitous from steep to steep" Written after the Death of Charles Lamb Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg SELECTIONS FROM WORDSWORTH. 1786. EXTRACT FROM THE CONCLUSION OF A POEM, COMPOSED IN ANTICIPATION OF LEAVING SCHOOL. Composed 1786. DEAR native regions, I foretell, From what I feel at this farewell, That, wheresoe'er my steps may tend, If in that hour a single tie Survive of local sympathy, My soul will cast the backward view, Published 1815. Thus, while the Sun sinks down to rest On the dear hills where first he rose. WRITTEN IN VERY EARLY YOUTH. Composed 1786 (probably). Published 1807. CALM is all nature as a resting wheel. Is cropping audibly his later meal: A Dark is the ground; a slumber seems to steal LINES LEFT UPON A SEAT IN A YEW-TREE, (1) WHICH STANDS NEAR THE LAKE OF ESTHWAITE, ON A DESOLATE PART OF THE SHORE, COMMANDING A BEAUTIFUL PROSPECT, Composed 1786-1795 Published 1798. NAY, Traveller! rest. This lonely Yew-tree stands Who he was That piled these stones, and with the mossy sod Of lofty hopes, he to the world went forth |