He found us when the age had bound
Our souls in its benumbing round ;
He spoke, and loosed our heart in tears.
He laid us as we lay at birth
On the cool flowery lap of earth,
Smiles broke from us and we had ease;
The hills were round us, and the breeze
Went o'er the sun-lit fields again ;
Our foreheads felt the wind and rain.
Our youth return'd; for there was shed
On spirits that had long been dead,
Spirits dried up and closely furld,
The freshness of the early world.

--MATTHEW ARNOLD.

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AN INTRODUCTORY MEMOIR,

- Ode on Intimations of Immortality,

Ruth,

V"My heart leaps up,"

Lucy Gray; or, Solitude,

Alice Fell; or, Poverty,

Ve are Seven,

Anecdote for Fathers,

The Pet Lamb,

The Idle Shepherd Boys,

To Hartley Coleridge,

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The Sparrow's Nest,

To a Butterfly,

A Farewell,

Stanzas written in Thomson's "Castle of

Indolence,”

Strange fits of Passion I have known,"

“She dwelt among the untrodden ways,'

“I travelled among unknown men,”

“Her eyes are wild, her head is bare,” ...

The Childless Father,

The Affliction of Margaret,

From the White Doe of Rylstone,

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To the small Celandine,

To the same Flower,

The Redbreast and the Butterfly,

To the Daisy,

To the same Flower,

To a Sky-lark,

Stray Pleasures,

“There was a boy,”

To the Cuckoo,

A Night-Piece,

Yew Trees, .

“She was a Phantom of Delight,'

To the Nightingale, ..

Goody Blake and Harry Gill,

Daffodils,

The Reverie of Poor Susan,

The Power of Music,

Stepping Westward,

Glen-Almain ; or, the Narrow Glen,

To a Highland Girl,

The Solitary Reaper,

Lines written in March,

Gipsies,

Beggars,

Yarrow Unvisited,

Yarrow Visited,

Laodamia,

Star-Gazers,

Resolution and Independence,

Hart-Leap Well,

Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle,

The Echo,

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