LXXVII MEMORIAL NEAR THE OUTLET OF THE LAKE OF THUN: 'DEM ANDENKEN MEINES FREUNDES ALOYS REDING MDCCCXVIH. Aloys Reding, it will be remembered, was Captain-General of the Swiss forces, which, with a courage and perseverance worthy of the cause, opposed the flagitious and too successful attempt of Buonaparte to subjugate their country. AROUND a wild and woody hill A gravelled pathway treading, We reached a votive Stone that bears The name of Aloys Reding. Well judged the Friend who placed it there For silence and protection; And haply with a finer care Of dutiful affection. The Sun regards it from the West; And, while in summer glory He sets, his sinking yields a type And oft he tempts the patriot Swiss Till all is dim, save this bright Stone LXXVIII INCIDENT AT BRUGÈS IN Brugès town is many a street A harp that tuneful prelude made The measure, simple truth to tell, The shadow and the song. When silent were both voice and chords, Yet sad as sweet,-for English words It was a breezy hour of eve; And pinnacle and spire Quivered and seemed almost to heave, But, where we stood, the setting sun And, if the glory reached the Nun, Not always is the heart unwise, If even a passing Stranger sighs Oh! what is beauty, what is love, Such feeling pressed upon my soul, By one soft trickling tear that stole Fresh from the beauty and the bliss LXXIX DISSOLUTION OF THE ENGLISH MONASTERIES THREATS Come which no submission may assuage, The tapers shall be quenched, the belfries mute, The owl of evening and the woodland fox To stoop her head before these desperate shocks— LXXX MUTABILITY FROM low to high doth dissolution climb, M Which they can hear who meddle not with crime, Nor avarice, nor over-anxious care. Truth fails not; but her outward forms that bear That in the morning whitened hill and plain His crown of weeds, but could not even sustain LXXXI INSIDE OF KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE TAX not the royal Saint with vain expense, Of white robed Scholars only-this immense And glorious Work of fine intelligence ! Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof |