And as the mind is pitched the ear is pleased
With melting airs or martial1, brisk or grave;
Some chord in unison2 with what we hear
Is touched within us, and the heart replies.
How soft the music of those village bells
Falling at intervals3 upon the ear
In cadence4 sweet, now dying all away,
Now pealing5 loud again, and louder still,
Clear and sonorous6 as the gale7 comes on.
With easy force it opens all the cells
Where memory slept. Wherever I have heard
A kindred melody, the scene recurs8,
And with it all its pleasures and its pains.
Such comprehensive views the spirit takes,
That in a few short moments I retrace9
(As in a map the voyager his course)
The windings10 of my way through many years.
Short as in retrospect11 the journey seems,
It seemed not always short; the rugged12 path,
And prospect13 oft so dreary14 and forlorn,
Moved many a sigh at its disheartening length.
Yet feeling present evils, while the past
Faintly impress the mind, or not at all,
How readily we wish time spent revoked15,
That we might try the ground again, where once
(Through inexperience as we now perceive)
We missed that happiness we might have found.
Some friend is gone, perhaps his son’s best friend
A father, whose authority, in show
When most severe, and mustering16 all its force,
Was but the graver countenance17 of love;
Whose favour, like the clouds of spring, might lower,
And utter now and then an awful voice,
But had a blessing18 in its darkest frown,
Threatening at once and nourishing the plant.
We loved, but not enough, the gentle hand
That reared us. At a thoughtless age allured19
By every gilded20 folly21, we renounced22
His sheltering side, and wilfully23 forewent
That converse24 which we now in vain regret.
How gladly would the man recall to life
The boy’s neglected sire! a mother too,
That softer friend, perhaps more gladly still,
Might he demand them at the gates of death.
Sorrow has since they went subdued26 and tamed
The playful humour; he could now endure
(Himself grown sober in the vale of tears)
And feel a parent’s presence no restraint.
But not to understand a treasure’s worth
Till time has stolen away the slighted good,
Is cause of half the poverty we feel,
And makes the world the wilderness27 it is.
The few that pray at all, pray oft amiss,
And, seeking grace to improve the prize they hold,
Would urge a wiser suit than asking more.
The night was winter in his roughest mood,
The morning sharp and clear; but now at noon
Upon the southern side of the slant29 hills,
And where the woods fence off the northern blast,
The season smiles, resigning all its rage,
And has the warmth of May. The vault30 is blue
Without a cloud, and white without a speck31
The dazzling splendour of the scene below.
Again the harmony comes o’er the vale,
And through the trees I view the embattled tower
Whence all the music. I again perceive
The soothing32 influence of the wafted33 strains,
And settle in soft musings, as I tread
The walk still verdant34 under oaks and elms,
Whose outspread branches overarch the glade35.
The roof, though movable through all its length,
As the wind sways it, has yet well sufficed,
And, intercepting36 in their silent fall
The frequent flakes37, has kept a path for me.
No noise is here, or none that hinders thought:
The redbreast warbles still, but is content
With slender notes and more than half suppressed.
Pleased with his solitude38, and flitting light
From spray to spray, where’er he rests he shakes
From many a twig39 the pendant drops of ice,
That tinkle40 in the withered41 leaves below.
Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft,
Charms more than silence. Meditation42 here
May think down hours to moments. Here the heart
May give an useful lesson to the head,
And learning wiser grow without his books.
Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one,
Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells
In heads replete43 with thoughts of other men;
Wisdom in minds attentive44 to their own.
Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass,
The mere45 materials with which wisdom builds,
Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place,
Does but encumber46 whom it seems to enrich.
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much,
Wisdom is humble47 that he knows no more.
Books are not seldom talismans48 and spells
By which the magic art of shrewder wits
Holds an unthinking multitude enthralled49.
Some to the fascination50 of a name
Surrender judgment52 hoodwinked. Some the style
Infatuates, and, through labyrinths53 and wilds
Of error, leads them by a tune54 entranced.
While sloth55 seduces56 more, too weak to bear
The insupportable fatigue57 of thought,
And swallowing therefore without pause or choice
The total grist unsifted, husks and all.
But trees, and rivulets58 whose rapid course
Defies the check of winter, haunts of deer,
And sheep-walks populous59 with bleating60 lambs,
And lanes, in which the primrose61 ere her time
Peeps through the moss62 that clothes the hawthorn63 root,
Deceive no student. Wisdom there, and truth,
Not shy as in the world, and to be won
By slow solicitation64, seize at once
The roving thought, and fix it on themselves.
What prodigies65 can power divine perform
More grand than it produces year by year,
And all in sight of inattentive man?
Familiar with the effect we slight the cause,
And in the constancy of Nature’s course,
The regular return of genial66 months,
And renovation67 of a faded world,
See nought68 to wonder at. Should God again,
As once in Gibeon, interrupt the race
Of the undeviating and punctual sun,
How would the world admire! but speaks it less
An agency divine, to make him know
His moment when to sink and when to rise
Age after age, than to arrest his course?
All we behold69 is miracle: but, seen
So duly, all is miracle in vain.
Where now the vital energy that moved,
While summer was, the pure and subtle lymph
Through the imperceptible meandering70 veins71
Of leaf and flower? It sleeps: and the icy touch
Of unprolific winter has impressed
A cold stagnation72 on the intestine73 tide.
But let the months go round, a few short months,
And all shall be restored. These naked shoots,
Barren as lances, among which the wind
Makes wintry music, sighing as it goes,
Shall put their graceful74 foliage75 on again,
And more aspiring76 and with ampler spread
Shall boast new charms, and more than they have lost.
Then, each in its peculiar77 honours clad,
Shall publish even to the distant eye
Its family and tribe. Laburnum rich
In streaming gold; syringa ivory pure;
The scented78 and the scentless80 rose; this red
And of a humbler growth, the other tall,
And throwing up into the darkest gloom
Of neighbouring cypress81, or more sable82 yew83,
Her silver globes, light as the foamy84 surf
That the wind severs85 from the broken wave;
The lilac various in array, now white,
Now sanguine86, and her beauteous head now set
With purple spikes87 pyramidal, as if
Studious of ornament88, yet unresolved
Which hue89 she most approved, she chose them all;
Copious90 of flowers the woodbine, pale and wan92,
But well compensating93 their sickly looks
With never-cloying odours, early and late;
Hypericum all bloom, so thick a swarm94
Of flowers like flies, clothing her slender rods,
That scarce a leaf appears; mezereon too,
Though leafless, well attired96, and thick beset97
With blushing wreaths investing every spray;
Alth?a with the purple eye; the broom,
Yellow and bright as bullion98 unalloyed
Her blossoms; and luxuriant above all
The jasmine, throwing wide her elegant sweets,
The deep dark green of whose unvarnished leaf
Makes more conspicuous99, and illumines more
The bright profusion100 of her scattered101 stars.—
These have been, and these shall be in their day,
And all this uniform uncoloured scene
Shall be dismantled102 of its fleecy load,
And flush into variety again.
From dearth103 to plenty, and from death to life,
Is Nature’s progress when she lectures man
In heavenly truth; evincing, as she makes
The grand transition, that there lives and works
A soul in all things, and that soul is God.
The beauties of the wilderness are His,
That make so gay the solitary104 place
Where no eye sees them. And the fairer forms
That cultivation105 glories in, are His.
He sets the bright procession on its way,
And marshals all the order of the year.
He marks the bounds which Winter may not pass,
And blunts his pointed106 fury. In its case,
Russet and rude, folds up the tender germ
Uninjured, with inimitable art,
And, ere one flowery season fades and dies,
Designs the blooming wonders of the next.
Some say that in the origin of things,
When all creation started into birth,
The infant elements received a law
From which they swerve107 not since; that under force
Of that controlling ordinance108 they move,
And need not His immediate109 hand, who first
Prescribed their course, to regulate it now.
Thus dream they, and contrive110 to save a God
The encumbrance111 of His own concerns, and spare
The great Artificer of all that moves
The stress of a continual act, the pain
Of unremitted vigilance and care,
As too laborious112 and severe a task.
So man the moth25 is not afraid, it seems,
To span Omnipotence113, and measure might
That knows no measure, by the scanty114 rule
And standard of his own, that is to-day,
And is not ere to-morrow’s sun go down.
But how should matter occupy a charge
Dull as it is, and satisfy a law
So vast in its demands, unless impelled116
To ceaseless service by a ceaseless force,
And under pressure of some conscious cause?
The Lord of all, Himself through all diffused118
Sustains and is the life of all that lives.
Nature is but a name for an effect
Whose cause is God. He feeds the secret fire
By which the mighty119 process is maintained,
Who sleeps not, is not weary; in whose sight
Slow-circling ages are as transient days;
Whose work is without labour, whose designs
No flaw deforms120, no difficulty thwarts121,
And whose beneficence no charge exhausts.
Him blind antiquity122 profaned123, not served,
With self-taught rites124 and under various names
Female and male, Pomona, Pales, Pan,
And Flora125 and Vertumnus; peopling earth
With tutelary126 goddesses and gods
That were not, and commending as they would
To each some province, garden, field, or grove127.
But all are under One. One spirit—His
Who bore the platted thorns with bleeding brows—
Rules universal nature. Not a flower
But shows some touch in freckle128, streak129, or stain,
Of His unrivalled pencil. He inspires
Their balmy odours and imparts their hues130,
And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes,
In grains as countless131 as the sea-side sands,
The forms with which He sprinkles all the earth.
Happy who walks with Him! whom, what he finds
Of flavour or of scent79 in fruit or flower,
Or what he views of beautiful or grand
In nature, from the broad majestic132 oak
To the green blade that twinkles in the sun,
Prompts with remembrance of a present God.
His presence, who made all so fair, perceived,
Makes all still fairer. As with Him no scene
Is dreary, so with Him all seasons please.
Though winter had been none had man been true,
And earth be punished for its tenant’s sake,
Yet not in vengeance133; as this smiling sky,
So soon succeeding such an angry night,
And these dissolving snows, and this clear stream,
Recovering fast its liquid music, prove.
Who then, that has a mind well strung and tuned134
To contemplation, and within his reach
A scene so friendly to his favourite task,
Would waste attention at the chequered board,
His host of wooden warriors135 to and fro
Marching and counter-marching, with an eye
As fixt as marble, with a forehead ridged
And furrowed136 into storms, and with a hand
Trembling, as if eternity137 were hung
In balance on his conduct of a pin?
Nor envies he aught more their idle sport,
Who pant with application misapplied
To trivial toys, and, pushing ivory balls
Across the velvet140 level, feel a joy
Akin141 to rapture142, when the bauble143 finds
Its destined144 goal of difficult access.
Nor deems he wiser him, who gives his noon
To Miss, the Mercer’s plague, from shop to shop
Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks
The polished counter, and approving none,
Or promising145 with smiles to call again.
Nor him, who, by his vanity seduced146,
And soothed147 into a dream that he discerns
The difference of a Guido from a daub,
Frequents the crowded auction148. Stationed there
As duly as the Langford of the show,
With glass at eye, and catalogue in hand,
And tongue accomplished149 in the fulsome150 cant115
And pedantry151 that coxcombs learn with ease,
Oft as the price-deciding hammer falls
He notes it in his book, then raps his box,
Swears ’tis a bargain, rails at his hard fate
That he has let it pass—but never bids.
Here unmolested, through whatever sign
The sun proceeds, I wander; neither mist,
Nor freezing sky, nor sultry, checking me,
Nor stranger intermeddling with my joy.
Even in the spring and play-time of the year
That calls the unwonted villager abroad
With all her little ones, a sportive train,
To gather king-cups in the yellow mead153,
And prank154 their hair with daisies, or to pick
A cheap but wholesome155 salad from the brook156,
These shades are all my own. The timorous157 hare,
Grown so familiar with her frequent guest,
Scarce shuns158 me; and the stock-dove unalarmed
Sits cooing in the pine-tree, nor suspends
His long love-ditty for my near approach.
Drawn159 from his refuge in some lonely elm
That age or injury has hollowed deep,
Where on his bed of wool and matted leaves
He has outslept the winter, ventures forth160
To frisk awhile, and bask161 in the warm sun,
The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play.
He sees me, and at once, swift as a bird,
Ascends162 the neighbouring beech163; there whisks his brush,
And perks164 his ears, and stamps and scolds aloud,
With all the prettiness of feigned165 alarm,
And anger insignificantly166 fierce.
The heart is hard in nature, and unfit
For human fellowship, as being void
Of sympathy, and therefore dead alike
To love and friendship both, that is not pleased
With sight of animals enjoying life,
Nor feels their happiness augment167 his own.
The bounding fawn168 that darts169 across the glade
When none pursues, through mere delight of heart,
And spirits buoyant with excess of glee;
The horse, as wanton and almost as fleet,
That skims the spacious170 meadow at full speed,
Then stops and snorts, and throwing high his heels
Starts to the voluntary race again;
The very kine that gambol171 at high noon,
The total herd172 receiving first from one,
That leads the dance, a summons to be gay,
Though wild their strange vagaries173, and uncouth174
Their efforts, yet resolved with one consent
To give such act and utterance175 as they may
To ecstasy176 too big to be suppressed—
These, and a thousand images of bliss177,
With which kind nature graces every scene
Where cruel man defeats not her design,
Impart to the benevolent179, who wish
All that are capable of pleasure pleased,
A far superior happiness to theirs,
The comfort of a reasonable joy.
Man scarce had risen, obedient to His call
Who formed him from the dust, his future grave,
When he was crowned as never king was since.
God set His diadem180 upon his head,
And angel choirs181 attended. Wondering stood
The new-made monarch182, while before him passed,
All happy and all perfect in their kind,
The creatures, summoned from their various haunts
To see their sovereign, and confess his sway.
Vast was his empire, absolute his power,
Or bounded only by a law whose force
’Twas his sublimest183 privilege to feel
And own, the law of universal love.
He ruled with meekness184, they obeyed with joy.
No cruel purpose lurked186 within his heart,
And no distrust of his intent in theirs.
So Eden was a scene of harmless sport,
Where kindness on his part who ruled the whole
Begat a tranquil187 confidence in all,
And fear as yet was not, nor cause for fear.
But sin marred188 all; and the revolt of man,
That source of evils not exhausted189 yet,
Was punished with revolt of his from him.
Garden of God, how terrible the change
Thy groves190 and lawns then witnessed! every heart,
Each animal of every name, conceived
A jealousy191 and an instinctive192 fear,
And, conscious of some danger, either fled
Precipitate193 the loathed194 abode195 of man,
Or growled196 defiance197 in such angry sort,
As taught him too to tremble in his turn.
Thus harmony and family accord
Were driven from Paradise; and in that hour
The seeds of cruelty, that since have swelled198
To such gigantic and enormous growth,
Were sown in human nature’s fruitful soil.
Hence date the persecution199 and the pain
That man inflicts200 on all inferior kinds,
Regardless of their plaints. To make him sport,
To gratify the frenzy201 of his wrath202,
Or his base gluttony, are causes good
And just in his account, why bird and beast
Should suffer torture, and the streams be dyed
With blood of their inhabitants impaled203.
Earth groans204 beneath the burden of a war
Waged with defenceless innocence205, while he,
Not satisfied to prey206 on all around,
Adds tenfold bitterness to death by pangs207
Needless, and first torments208 ere he devours209.
Now happiest they that occupy the scenes
The most remote from his abhorred210 resort,
Whom once as delegate of God on earth
They feared, and as His perfect image loved.
The wilderness is theirs with all its caves,
Its hollow glens, its thickets211, and its plains
Unvisited by man. There they are free,
And howl and roar as likes them, uncontrolled,
Nor ask his leave to slumber212 or to play.
Woe213 to the tyrant214, if he dare intrude215
Within the confines of their wild domain216;
The lion tells him, “I am monarch here;”
And if he spares him, spares him on the terms
Of royal mercy, and through generous scorn
To rend51 a victim trembling at his foot.
In measure, as by force of instinct drawn,
Or by necessity constrained217, they live
Dependent upon man, those in his fields,
These at his crib, and some beneath his roof;
They prove too often at how dear a rate
He sells protection. Witness, at his foot
The spaniel dying for some venial218 fault,
Under dissection219 of the knotted scourge220;
Witness the patient ox, with stripes and yells
Driven to the slaughter221, goaded222 as he runs
To madness, while the savage223 at his heels
Laughs at the frantic224 sufferer’s fury spent
Upon the guiltless passenger o’erthrown.
He too is witness, noblest of the train
That wait on man, the flight-performing horse:
With unsuspecting readiness he takes
His murderer on his back, and, pushed all day,
With bleeding sides, and flanks that heave for life,
To the far-distant goal, arrives and dies.
So little mercy shows who needs so much!
Does law, so jealous in the cause of man,
Denounce no doom226 on the delinquent227? None.
He lives, and o’er his brimming beaker boasts
(As if barbarity were high desert)
The inglorious feat178, and, clamorous228 in praise
Of the poor brute229, seems wisely to suppose
The honours of his matchless horse his own.
But many a crime, deemed innocent on earth,
Is registered in heaven, and these, no doubt,
Have each their record, with a curse annexed230.
Man may dismiss compassion231 from his heart,
But God will never. When He charged the Jew
To assist his foe232’s down-fallen beast to rise,
And when the bush-exploring boy that seized
The young, to let the parent bird go free,
Proved He not plainly that His meaner works
Are yet His care, and have an interest all,
All, in the universal Father’s love?
On Noah, and in him on all mankind,
The charter was conferred by which we hold
The flesh of animals in fee, and claim,
O’er all we feed on, power of life and death.
But read the instrument, and mark it well;
The oppression of a tyrannous control
Can find no warrant there. Feed then, and yield
Thanks for thy food. Carnivorous, through sin,
Feed on the slain233, but spare the living brute.
The Governor of all, Himself to all
So bountiful, in whose attentive ear
The unfledged raven234 and the lion’s whelp
Plead not in vain for pity on the pangs
Of hunger unassuaged, has interposed,
Not seldom, His avenging235 arm, to smite236
The injurious trampler237 upon nature’s law,
That claims forbearance even for a brute.
He hates the hardness of a Balaam’s heart,
And, prophet as he was, he might not strike
The blameless animal, without rebuke238,
On which he rode. Her opportune239 offence
Saved him, or the unrelenting seer had died.
He sees that human equity240 is slack
To interfere241, though in so just a cause,
And makes the task His own; inspiring dumb
And helpless victims with a sense so keen
Of injury, with such knowledge of their strength,
And such sagacity to take revenge,
That oft the beast has seemed to judge the man.
An ancient, not a legendary242 tale,
By one of sound intelligence rehearsed,
(If such, who plead for Providence243 may seem
In modern eyes) shall make the doctrine244 clear.
Where England, stretched towards the setting sun,
Narrow and long, o’erlooks the western wave,
Dwelt young Misagathus; a scorner he
Of God and goodness, atheist245 in ostent,
Vicious in act, in temper savage-fierce.
He journeyed, and his chance was, as he went,
To join a traveller of far different note—
Evander, famed for piety246, for years
Deserving honour, but for wisdom more.
Fame had not left the venerable man
A stranger to the manners of the youth,
Whose face, too, was familiar to his view.
Their way was on the margin247 of the land,
O’er the green summit of the rocks whose base
Beats back the roaring surge, scarce heard so high.
The charity that warmed his heart was moved
At sight of the man-monster. With a smile
Gentle and affable, and full of grace,
As fearful of offending whom he wished
Much to persuade, he plied139 his ear with truths
Not harshly thundered forth or rudely pressed,
But, like his purpose, gracious, kind, and sweet.
“And dost thou dream,” the impenetrable man
Exclaimed, “that me the lullabies of age,
And fantasies of dotards such as thou,
Can cheat, or move a moment’s fear in me?
Mark now the proof I give thee, that the brave
Need no such aids as superstition249 lends
To steel their hearts against the dread250 of death.”
He spoke251, and to the precipice252 at hand
Pushed with a madman’s fury. Fancy shrinks,
And the blood thrills and curdles253 at the thought
Of such a gulf254 as he designed his grave.
But though the felon255 on his back could dare
The dreadful leap, more rational, his steed
Declined the death, and wheeling swiftly round,
Or ere his hoof256 had pressed the crumbling257 verge258,
Baffled his rider, saved against his will.
The frenzy of the brain may be redressed260
By medicine well applied138, but without grace
The heart’s insanity261 admits no cure.
Enraged262 the more by what might have reformed
His horrible intent, again he sought
Destruction, with a zeal263 to be destroyed,
With sounding whip and rowels dyed in blood.
But still in vain. The Providence that meant
A longer date to the far nobler beast,
Spared yet again the ignobler for his sake.
And now, his prowess proved, and his sincere,
Incurable265 obduracy266 evinced,
His rage grew cool; and, pleased perhaps to have earned
So cheaply the renown267 of that attempt,
With looks of some complacence he resumed
His road, deriding268 much the blank amaze
Of good Evander, still where he was left
Fixed269 motionless, and petrified270 with dread.
So on they fared; discourse271 on other themes
Ensuing, seemed to obliterate272 the past,
And tamer far for so much fury shown
(As is the course of rash and fiery273 men)
The rude companion smiled as if transformed.
But ’twas a transient calm. A storm was near,
An unsuspected storm. His hour was come.
The impious challenger of power divine
Was now to learn that Heaven, though slow to wrath,
Is never with impunity274 defied.
His horse, as he had caught his master’s mood,
Snorting, and starting into sudden rage,
Unbidden, and not now to be controlled,
Rushed to the cliff, and having reached it, stood.
At once the shock unseated him; he flew
Sheer o’er the craggy barrier, and, immersed
Deep in the flood, found, when he sought it not,
The death he had deserved, and died alone.
So God wrought275 double justice; made the fool
The victim of his own tremendous choice,
And taught a brute the way to safe revenge.
I would not enter on my list of friends
(Though graced with polished manners and fine sense,
Yet wanting sensibility) the man
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
An inadvertent step may crush the snail276
That crawls at evening in the public path;
But he that has humanity, forewarned,
Will tread aside, and let the reptile277 live.
The creeping vermin, loathsome278 to the sight,
And charged perhaps with venom279, that intrudes280
A visitor unwelcome into scenes
Sacred to neatness and repose281, the alcove282,
The chamber283, or refectory, may die.
A necessary act incurs284 no blame.
Not so when, held within their proper bounds
And guiltless of offence, they range the air,
Or take their pastime in the spacious field.
There they are privileged; and he that hunts
Or harms them there is guilty of a wrong,
Disturbs the economy of Nature’s realm,
Who, when she formed, designed them an abode.
The sum is this: if man’s convenience, health,
Or safety interfere, his rights and claims
Are paramount285, and must extinguish theirs.
Else they are all—the meanest things that are—
As free to live and to enjoy that life,
As God was free to form them at the first,
Who in His sovereign wisdom made them all.
Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons
To love it too. The spring-time of our years
Is soon dishonoured287 and defiled288 in most
By budding ills, that ask a prudent289 hand
To check them. But, alas290! none sooner shoots,
If unrestrained, into luxuriant growth,
Than cruelty, most devilish of them all.
Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule
And righteous limitation of its act,
By which Heaven moves in pardoning guilty man;
And he that shows none, being ripe in years,
And conscious of the outrage291 he commits,
Shall seek it and not find it in his turn.
Distinguished292 much by reason, and still more
By our capacity of grace divine,
From creatures that exist but for our sake,
Which having served us, perish, we are held
Accountable, and God, some future day,
Will reckon with us roundly for the abuse
Of what He deems no mean or trivial trust.
Superior as we are, they yet depend
Not more on human help, than we on theirs.
Their strength, or speed, or vigilance, were given
In aid of our defects. In some are found
Such teachable and apprehensive293 parts,
That man’s attainments294 in his own concerns,
Matched with the expertness of the brutes295 in theirs,
Are ofttimes vanquished296 and thrown far behind.
Some show that nice sagacity of smell,
And read with such discernment, in the port
And figure of the man, his secret aim,
That oft we owe our safety to a skill
We could not teach, and must despair to learn.
But learn we might, if not too proud to stoop
To quadruped instructors297, many a good
And useful quality, and virtue298 too,
Rarely exemplified among ourselves;
Attachment299 never to be weaned, or changed
By any change of fortune, proof alike
Against unkindness, absence, and neglect;
Fidelity300, that neither bribe301 nor threat
Can move or warp302; and gratitude303 for small
And trivial favours, lasting304 as the life,
And glistening305 even in the dying eye.
Man praises man. Desert in arts or arms
Wins public honour; and ten thousand sit
Patiently present at a sacred song,
Commemoration-mad; content to hear
(Oh wonderful effect of music’s power!)
Messiah’s eulogy306, for Handel’s sake.
But less, methinks, than sacrilege might serve—
(For was it less? What heathen would have dared
To strip Jove’s statue of his oaken wreath
And hang it up in honour of a man?)
Much less might serve, when all that we design
Is but to gratify an itching307 ear,
And give the day to a musician’s praise.
Remember Handel! who, that was not born
Deaf as the dead to harmony, forgets,
Or can, the more than Homer of his age?
Yes—we remember him; and, while we praise
A talent so divine, remember too
That His most holy Book from whom it came
Was never meant, was never used before
To buckram out the memory of a man.
But hush308!—the muse309 perhaps is too severe,
And with a gravity beyond the size
And measure of the offence, rebukes310 a deed
Less impious than absurd, and owing more
To want of judgment than to wrong design.
So in the chapel311 of old Ely House,
When wandering Charles, who meant to be the third,
Had fled from William, and the news was fresh,
The simple clerk, but loyal, did announce,
And eke312 did rear right merrily, two staves,
Sung to the praise and glory of King George.
—Man praises man; and Garrick’s memory next,
When time has somewhat mellowed313 it, and made
The idol314 of our worship while he lived
The god of our idolatry once more,
Shall have its altar; and the world shall go
In pilgrimage to bow before his shrine315.
The theatre, too small, shall suffocate316
Its squeezed contents, and more than it admits
Shall sigh at their exclusion317, and return
Ungratified. For there some noble lord
Shall stuff his shoulders with King Richard’s bunch,
Or wrap himself in Hamlet’s inky cloak,
And strut318, and storm, and straddle, stamp, and stare,
To show the world how Garrick did not act,
For Garrick was a worshipper himself;
He drew the liturgy319, and framed the rites
And solemn ceremonial of the day,
And called the world to worship on the banks
Of Avon famed in song. Ah! pleasant proof
That piety has still in human hearts
Some place, a spark or two not yet extinct.
The mulberry-tree was hung with blooming wreaths,
The mulberry-tree stood centre of the dance,
The mulberry-tree was hymned with dulcet320 airs,
And from his touchwood trunk the mulberry-tree
Supplied such relics321 as devotion holds
Still sacred, and preserves with pious91 care.
So ’twas a hallowed time: decorum reigned322,
And mirth without offence. No few returned
Doubtless much edified323, and all refreshed.
—Man praises man. The rabble324 all alive,
From tippling benches, cellars, stalls, and styes,
Swarm in the streets. The statesman of the day,
A pompous325 and slow-moving pageant326, comes;
Some shout him, and some hang upon his car
To gaze in his eyes and bless him. Maidens327 wave
Their kerchiefs, and old women weep for joy
While others not so satisfied unhorse
The gilded equipage, and, turning loose
His steeds, usurp328 a place they well deserve.
Why? what has charmed them? Hath he saved the state?
No. Doth he purpose its salvation329? No.
Enchanting330 novelty, that moon at full
That finds out every crevice331 of the head
That is not sound and perfect, hath in theirs
Wrought this disturbance332. But the wane333 is near,
And his own cattle must suffice him soon.
Thus idly do we waste the breath of praise,
And dedicate a tribute, in its use
And just direction sacred, to a thing
Doomed334 to the dust, or lodged335 already there.
Encomium336 in old time was poet’s work;
But, poets having lavishly337 long since
Exhausted all materials of the art,
The task now falls into the public hand;
And I, contented338 with a humble theme,
Have poured my stream of panegyric339 down
The vale of Nature, where it creeps and winds
Among her lovely works, with a secure
And unambitious course, reflecting clear
If not the virtues340 yet the worth of brutes.
And I am recompensed, and deem the toil341
Of poetry not lost, if verse of mine
May stand between an animal and woe,
And teach one tyrant pity for his drudge342.
The groans of Nature in this nether343 world,
Which Heaven has heard for ages, have an end.
Foretold344 by prophets, and by poets sung,
Whose fire was kindled345 at the prophets’ lamp,
The time of rest, the promised Sabbath, comes.
Six thousand years of sorrow have well-nigh
Fulfilled their tardy346 and disastrous347 course
Over a sinful world; and what remains348
Of this tempestuous349 state of human things,
Is merely as the working of a sea
Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest.
For He, whose car the winds are, and the clouds
The dust that waits upon His sultry march,
When sin hath moved Him, and His wrath is hot,
Shall visit earth in mercy; shall descend350
Propitious351, in His chariot paved with love,
And what His storms have blasted and defaced
For man’s revolt, shall with a smile repair.
Sweet is the harp28 of prophecy; too sweet
Not to be wronged by a mere mortal touch;
Nor can the wonders it records be sung
To meaner music, and not suffer loss.
But when a poet, or when one like me,
Happy to rove among poetic352 flowers,
Though poor in skill to rear them, lights at last
On some fair theme, some theme divinely fair,
Such is the impulse and the spur he feels
To give it praise proportioned to its worth,
That not to attempt it, arduous353 as he deems
The labour, were a task more arduous still.
Oh scenes surpassing fable248, and yet true,
Scenes of accomplished bliss! which who can see,
Though but in distant prospect, and not feel
His soul refreshed with foretaste of the joy?
Rivers of gladness water all the earth,
And clothe all climes with beauty; the reproach
Of barrenness is past. The fruitful field
Laughs with abundance, and the land once lean,
Or fertile only in its own disgrace,
Exults354 to see its thistly curse repealed355.
The various seasons woven into one,
And that one season an eternal spring,
The garden fears no blight356, and needs no fence,
For there is none to covet357, all are full.
The lion and the libbard and the bear
Graze with the fearless flocks. All bask at noon
Together, or all gambol in the shade
Of the same grove, and drink one common stream.
Antipathies358 are none. No foe to man
Lurks359 in the serpent now. The mother sees,
And smiles to see, her infant’s playful hand
Stretched forth to dally360 with the crested361 worm,
To stroke his azure362 neck, or to receive
The lambent homage363 of his arrowy tongue.
All creatures worship man, and all mankind
One Lord, one Father. Error has no place;
That creeping pestilence364 is driven away,
The breath of heaven has chased it. In the heart
No passion touches a discordant365 string,
But all is harmony and love. Disease
Is not. The pure and uncontaminated blood
Holds its due course, nor fears the frost of age.
One song employs all nations; and all cry,
“Worthy366 the Lamb, for He was slain for us!”
The dwellers367 in the vales and on the rocks
Shout to each other, and the mountain-tops
From distant mountains catch the flying joy,
Till nation after nation taught the strain,
Each rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Behold the measure of the promise filled,
See Salem built, the labour of a God!
Bright as a sun the sacred city shines;
All kingdoms and all princes of the earth
Flock to that light; the glory of all lands
Flows into her, unbounded is her joy
And endless her increase. Thy rams368 are there,
Nebaioth, * and the flocks of Kedar there;
The looms369 of Ormus, and the mines of Ind,
And Saba’s spicy370 groves pay tribute there.
Praise is in all her gates. Upon her walls,
And in her streets, and in her spacious courts
Is heard salvation. Eastern Java there
Kneels with the native of the farthest West,
And ?thiopia spreads abroad the hand,
And worships. Her report has travelled forth
Into all lands. From every clime they come
To see thy beauty and to share thy joy,
O Sion! an assembly such as earth
Saw never; such as heaven stoops down to see.
Thus heavenward all things tend. For all were once
Perfect, and all must be at length restored.
So God has greatly purposed; who would else
In His dishonoured works Himself endure
Dishonour286, and be wronged without redress259.
Haste then, and wheel away a shattered world,
Ye slow-revolving seasons! We would see
(A sight to which our eyes are strangers yet)
A world that does not dread and hate His laws,
And suffer for its crime: would learn how fair
The creature is that God pronounces good,
How pleasant in itself what pleases Him.
Here every drop of honey hides a sting;
Worms wind themselves into our sweetest flowers,
And even the joy, that haply some poor heart
Derives372 from heaven, pure as the fountain is,
Is sullied in the stream; taking a taint373
From touch of human lips, at best impure374.
Oh for a world in principle as chaste375
As this is gross and selfish! over which
Custom and prejudice shall bear no sway,
That govern all things here, shouldering aside
The meek185 and modest Truth, and forcing her
To seek a refuge from the tongue of strife376
In nooks obscure, far from the ways of men,
Where violence shall never lift the sword,
Nor cunning justify377 the proud man’s wrong,
Leaving the poor no remedy but tears;
Where he that fills an office, shall esteem378
The occasion it presents of doing good
More than the perquisite379; where laws shall speak
Seldom, and never but as wisdom prompts,
And equity, not jealous more to guard
A worthless form, than to decide aright;
Where fashion shall not sanctify abuse,
Nor smooth good-breeding (supplemental grace)
With lean performance ape the work of love.
Come then, and added to Thy many crowns
Receive yet one, the crown of all the earth,
Thou who alone art worthy! it was Thine
By ancient covenant380, ere nature’s birth,
And Thou hast made it Thine by purchase since,
And overpaid its value with Thy blood.
Thy saints proclaim Thee King; and in their hearts
Thy title is engraven with a pen
Dipt in the fountain of eternal love.
Thy saints proclaim Thee King; and Thy delay
Gives courage to their foes381, who, could they see
The dawn of Thy last advent382, long-desired,
Would creep into the bowels383 of the hills,
And flee for safety to the falling rocks.
The very spirit of the world is tired
Of its own taunting384 question, asked so long,
“Where is the promise of your Lord’s approach?”
The infidel has shot his bolts away,
Till, his exhausted quiver yielding none,
He gleans385 the blunted shafts386 that have recoiled387,
And aims them at the shield of truth again.
The veil is rent, rent too by priestly hands,
That hides divinity from mortal eyes;
And all the mysteries to faith proposed,
Insulted and traduced388, are cast aside,
As useless, to the moles152 and to the bats.
They now are deemed the faithful and are praised,
Who, constant only in rejecting Thee,
Deny Thy Godhead with a martyr’s zeal,
And quit their office for their error’s sake.
Blind and in love with darkness! yet even these
Worthy, compared with sycophants389, who kneel,
Thy Name adoring, and then preach Thee man!
So fares Thy Church. But how Thy Church may fare,
The world takes little thought; who will may preach,
And what they will. All pastors390 are alike
To wandering sheep resolved to follow none.
Two gods divide them all, Pleasure and Gain;
For these they live, they sacrifice to these,
And in their service wage perpetual war
With conscience and with Thee. Lust391 in their hearts,
And mischief392 in their hands, they roam the earth
To prey upon each other; stubborn, fierce,
High-minded, foaming393 out their own disgrace.
Thy prophets speak of such; and noting down
The features of the last degenerate394 times,
Exhibit every lineament of these.
Come then, and added to Thy many crowns
Receive yet one as radiant as the rest,
Due to Thy last and most effectual work,
Thy Word fulfilled, the conquest of a world.
He is the happy man, whose life even now
Shows somewhat of that happier life to come;
Who, doomed to an obscure but tranquil state,
Is pleased with it, and, were he free to choose,
Would make his fate his choice; whom peace, the fruit
Of virtue, and whom virtue, fruit of faith,
Prepare for happiness; bespeak395 him one
Content indeed to sojourn396 while he must
Below the skies, but having there his home.
The world o’erlooks him in her busy search
Of objects more illustrious in her view;
And occupied as earnestly as she,
Though more sublimely397, he o’erlooks the world.
She scorns his pleasures, for she knows them not;
He seeks not hers, for he has proved them vain.
He cannot skim the ground like summer birds
Pursuing gilded flies, and such he deems
Her honours, her emoluments398, her joys;
Therefore in contemplation is his bliss,
Whose power is such, that whom she lifts from earth
She makes familiar with a heaven unseen,
And shows him glories yet to be revealed.
Not slothful he, though seeming unemployed399,
And censured400 oft as useless. Stillest streams
Oft water fairest meadows; and the bird
That flutters least is longest on the wing.
Ask him, indeed, what trophies401 he has raised,
Or what achievements of immortal402 fame
He purposes, and he shall answer—None.
His warfare403 is within. There unfatigued
His fervent404 spirit labours. There he fights,
And there obtains fresh triumphs o’er himself,
And never-withering wreaths, compared with which
The laurels405 that a C?sar reaps are weeds.
Perhaps the self-approving haughty406 world,
That, as she sweeps him with her whistling silks,
Scarce deigns407 to notice him, or if she see,
Deems him a cipher408 in the works of God,
Receives advantage from his noiseless hours
Of which she little dreams. Perhaps she owes
Her sunshine and her rain, her blooming spring
And plenteous harvest, to the prayer he makes
When, Isaac-like, the solitary saint
Walks forth to meditate409 at eventide,
And think on her who thinks not for herself.
Forgive him then, thou bustler in concerns
Of little worth, and idler in the best,
If, author of no mischief and some good,
He seeks his proper happiness by means
That may advance, but cannot hinder thine.
Nor, though he tread the secret path of life,
Engage no notice, and enjoy much ease,
Account him an encumbrance on the state,
Receiving benefits, and rendering410 none.
His sphere though humble, if that humble sphere
Shine with his fair example, and though small
His influence, if that influence all be spent
In soothing sorrow and in quenching411 strife,
In aiding helpless indigence412, in works
From which at least a grateful few derive371
Some taste of comfort in a world of woe,
Then let the supercilious413 great confess
He serves his country; recompenses well
The state beneath the shadow of whose vine
He sits secure, and in the scale of life
Holds no ignoble264, though a slighted place.
The man whose virtues are more felt than seen,
Must drop, indeed, the hope of public praise;
But he may boast, what few that win it can,
That if his country stand not by his skill,
At least his follies414 have not wrought her fall.
Polite refinement415 offers him in vain
Her golden tube, through which a sensual world
Draws gross impurity416, and likes it well,
The neat conveyance417 hiding all the offence.
Not that he peevishly418 rejects a mode
Because that world adopts it. If it bear
The stamp and clear impression of good sense,
And be not costly419 more than of true worth,
He puts it on, and for decorum sake
Can wear it e’en as gracefully420 as she.
She judges of refinement by the eye,
He by the test of conscience, and a heart
Not soon deceived; aware that what is base
No polish can make sterling421, and that vice117,
Though well-perfumed and elegantly dressed,
Like an unburied carcass tricked with flowers,
Is but a garnished422 nuisance, fitter far
For cleanly riddance than for fair attire95.
So life glides423 smoothly425 and by stealth away,
More golden than that age of fabled426 gold
Renowned427 in ancient song; not vexed428 with care,
Or stained with guilt225, beneficent, approved
Of God and man, and peaceful in its end.
So glide424 my life away! and so at last,
My share of duties decently fulfilled,
May some disease, not tardy to perform
Its destined office, yet with gentle stroke,
Dismiss me weary to a safe retreat
Beneath the turf that I have often trod.
It shall not grieve me, then, that once, when called
To dress a Sofa with the flowers of verse,
I played awhile, obedient to the fair,
With that light task, but soon to please her more,
Whom flowers alone I knew would little please,
Let fall the unfinished wreath, and roved for fruit;
Roved far and gathered much; some harsh, ’tis true,
Picked from the thorns and briars of reproof429,
But wholesome, well-digested; grateful some
To palates that can taste immortal truth;
Insipid430 else, and sure to be despised.
But all is in His hand whose praise I seek,
In vain the poet sings, and the world hears,
If He regard not, though divine the theme.
’Tis not in artful measures, in the chime
And idle tinkling431 of a minstrel’s lyre,
To charm His ear, whose eye is on the heart;
Whose frown can disappoint the proudest strain,
Whose approbation—prosper even mine.
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relics
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pageant
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disturbance
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encomium
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lavishly
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contented
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panegyric
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virtues
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nether
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foretold
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tardy
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disastrous
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tempestuous
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propitious
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poetic
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exults
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repealed
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blight
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covet
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antipathies
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lurks
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dally
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crested
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azure
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homage
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pestilence
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discordant
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worthy
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dwellers
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rams
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looms
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spicy
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taint
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chaste
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strife
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justify
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esteem
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perquisite
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covenant
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foes
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advent
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bowels
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taunting
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gleans
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shafts
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recoiled
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traduced
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sycophants
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pastors
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lust
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mischief
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foaming
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degenerate
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bespeak
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sojourn
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sublimely
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emoluments
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trophies
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warfare
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laurels
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haughty
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deigns
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quenching
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conveyance
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sterling
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