√. Written at the Request of Sir George Beaumont, Bart. and in his Name, for an Urn, placed by him at the Termination of a newly-planted Avenue, in the same Grounds. YE Lime-trees, ranged before this hallowed Urn, And be not slow a stately growth to rear Of Pillars, branching off from year to year Till they at length have framed a darksome Aisle ;— Like a recess within that awful Pile Where Reynolds, mid our Country's noblest Dead, In the last sanctity of Fame is laid. -There, though by right the excelling Painter sleep Yet not the less his Spirit would hold dear Self-hidden praise and Friendship's private tear : Hence on my patrimonial Grounds have I Raised this frail tribute to his memory, ་ From youth a zealous follower of the Art Feeling what England lost when Reynolds died. VI. Inscription for a Seat in the Groves of Coleorton. BENEATH yon eastern Ridge, the craggy Bound, Erst a religious House, that day and night To honourable Men of various worth: There, on the margin of a Streamlet wild, Did Francis Beaumont sport, an eager Child; And things of holy use unhallowed lie; They perish ;-but the Intellect can raise, From airy words alone, a Pile that ne'er decays. VIL Written with a Pencil upon a Stone in the Wall of the House (an Out-house) on the Island at Grasmere. RUDE is this Edifice, and Thou hast seen With the ideal grace. Yet as it is Do take it in good part:-alas! the poor Thou seest a homely Pile, yet to these walls And hither does one Poet sometimes row His Pinnace, a small vagrant Barge, up-piled With plenteous store of heath and withered fern, (A lading which he with his sickle cuts Among the mountains,) and beneath this roof He makes his summer couch, and here at noon Lie round him, even as if they were a part Fair sights and visions of romantic joy! |