'Tis of the elder Brother I am speaking: The Estate and House were sold; and all their Sheep, Twelve years are past since we had tidings from him. And those two bells of ours, which there you see — That would bring down his spirit; and no doubt, *The Great Gavel, so called, I imagine, from its resemblance to the Gable end of a house, is one of the highest of the Cumberland mountains. It stands at the head of the several vales of Ennerdale, Watsdale, and Borrowdale. The Leeza is a river which flows into the Lake of Ennerdale: on issuing from the Lake, it changes its name, and is called the End, Eyne, or Enna. It fails into the sea a little below Egremont. That is but From his youth A fellow tale of sorrow. In him was somewhat checked; and, when his Brether The little colour that he had was soon Stolen from his cheek; he drooped, and pined, and pined LEONARD. But these are all the graves of full-grown men ! PRIEST. Ay, Sir, that passed away: we took him to us, LEONARD. But this Youth, How did he die at last? PRIEST. One sweet May morning, (It will be twelve years since when Spring returns) se yon precipice; - it wears the shape - by our shepherds it is called THE PILLAR. tary summit crowned with heath, - Leterer, not unnoticed by his Comrades, retched at ease; but, passing by the place ir return, they found that he was gone. ... was feared; but one of them by chance ng, when evening was far spent, the house - at that time was James's home, there learned 1 body had seen him all that day: trung came, and still he was unheard of: ⚫urs were alarmed, and to the Brook bustened, some towards the Lake: ere noon fi him at the foot of that same Rock ¦»-i, and with mangled limbs. The third day after d him, poor Youth, and there he lies! LEONARD. Lat then is his grave! - Before his death y that he saw many happy years? PRIEST. Ay, the be did! — LEONARD. And all went well with him?-- had coe, the youth had twenty homes. LEONARD. Andre believe, then, that his mind was easy?— PRIEST. Ing before he died, he found that time the friad to sorrow; and unless The power of speech. Both left the spot in silence; He travelled on to Egremont: and thence, He had not dared to tell him who he was. This done, he went on shipboard, and is now A Seaman, a gray-headed Mariner. ARTEGAL AND ELIDURE. [See the Chronicle of Geoffrey of Monmouth, and Milton's History of England.] its were turned on Leonard's luckless for- WHERE be the Temples which, in Britain's Isle, Totaled about him with a cheerful love. LEONARD. act come to an unhallowed end! PRIEST. *r, Gud fatud! — You recollect I mentioned at which disquietude and grief ght up him; and we all conjectured the day was warm, he had lain down the grass, — and waiting for his comrades, Le had fallen asleep; that in his sleep to the margin of the precipice - waged, and from the summit had fallen headlong. we sa no dubt, he perished; at the time, ⚫, that in his hand he must have held herd's staff; for midway in the cliff und hera caught; and there for many years — and mouldered there. The Priest here ended Sarger would have thanked him, but he felt from his heart that took away For his paternal Gods, the Trojan raised? To fatal dissolution; and, I ween, No vestige then was left that such had ever been. Nathless, a British record (long concealed And Albion's giants quelled A brood whom no civility could melt, "Who never tasted grace, and goodness ne'er had felt " By brave Corineus aided, he subdued, And Pleasure's sumptuous bowers; stret, and tender was the embrace he gave, returned by daunted Artegal; natural affection doubts enslave, athensions dark and criminal. to restrain the moving interview, The attendant lords withdrew; e they stood upon the plain apart, -- Landare, by words, relieved his struggling heart. enly Powers conducted, we have met; 3-cer: to my knowledge lost so long, ther lost to love, nor to regret, *** may seem) if I thy crown have borne, Tey royal mantle worn: their natural guardian; and 't is just And this for one who cannot imitate Thy virtue, who may hate: For, if, by such strange sacrifice restored, He reign, thou still must be his king, and sovereign Lord. "Lifted in magnanimity above Aught that my feeble nature could perform, A shadow in a hated land, while all Of glad or willing service to thy share would fall." "Believe it not," said Elidure; "respect Awaits on virtuous life, and ever most Do I should restore what hath been held in Attends on goodness with dominion decked, FAREWELL LINES. HIGH bliss is only for a higher state,' But, surely, if severe afflictions borne With patience merit the reward of peace, Peace ye deserve; and may the solid good, Sought by a wise though late exchange, and here With bounteous hand beneath a cottage roof To you accorded, never be withdrawn, Nor for the world's best promises renounced. Most soothing was it for a welcome friend, Fresh from the crowded city, to behold That lonely union, privacy so deep, Such calm employments, such entire content. So when the rain is over, the storm laid, A pair of herons oft-times have I seen, Upon a rocky islet, side by side, Drying their feathers in the sun, at ease; And so, when night with grateful gloom had fallen, TO A BUTTERFLY. I'VE watched you now a full half-hour, FAREWELL. COMPOSED IN THE YEAR 1802 FAREWELL, thou little Nook of mountain-ground, Our boat is safely anchored by the shore, Sunshine and shower be with you, bud and bell! We go for one to whom ye will be dear, |