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PART FOURTH	A
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WALK ABROAD VIEWS AROUND FROM THE SEVERN TO BRISTOL WRINGTON AULD ROBIN GRAY	B
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The shower is past the heath bell at our feet	C
Looks up as with a smile though the cold dew	D
Hangs yet within its cup like Pity's tear	E
Upon the eyelids of a village child	F
Mark where a light upon those far off waves	G
Gleams while the passing shower above our head	H
Sheds its last silent drops amid the hues	I
Of the fast fading rainbow such is life	J
Let us go forth the redbreast is abroad	K
And dripping in the sunshine sings again	L
No object on the wider sea line meets	M
The straining vision but one distant ship	N
Hanging as motionless and still far off	O
In the pale haze between the sea and sky	P
She seems the ship the very ship I saw	Q
In infancy and in that very place	R
Whilst I and all around me have grown old	S
Since she was first descried and there she sits	T
A solitary thing of the wide main	U
As she sat years ago Yet she moves on	V
To morrow all may be one waste of waves	G
Where is she bound We know not and no voice	W
Will tell us where Perhaps she beats her way	B
Slow up the channel after many years	X
Returning from some distant clime or lands	Y
Beyond the Atlantic Oh what anxious eyes	Z
Count every nearer surge that heaves around	A2
How many anxious hearts this moment beat	C
With thronging thoughts of home till those fixed eyes	Z
Intensely fixed upon these very hills	B2
Are filled with tears Perhaps she wanders on	V
On on into the world of the vast sea	C2
There to be lost never with homeward sails	D2
Destined to greet these far seen hills again	L
Now fading into mist So let her speed	E2
And we will pray she may return in joy	F2
When every storm is past Such is this sea	C2
That shows one wandering ship How different smile	G2
The sea scenes of the south and chiefly thine	H2
Waters of loveliest Hampton chiefly thine	H2
Where I have passed the happiest hours of youth	I2
Waters of loveliest Hampton Thy gray walls	J2
And loop hooled battlements cast the same shade	K2
Upon the light blue wave as when of yore	L2
Beneath their arch King Canute sat and chid	K2
The tide that came regardless to his feet	K2
A thousand years ago Oh how unlike	M2
Yon solitary sea the summer shines	N2
There while a crowd of glancing vessels glide	K2
Filled with the young and gay and pennants wave	O2
And sails at distance beautifully swell	P2
To the light breeze or pass like butterflies	Z
Amid the smoking steamers And oh look	Q2
Look what a fairy lady is that yacht	K2
That turns the wooded point and silently	C2
Streams up the sylvan Itchin silently	C2
And yet as if she said as she went on	V
Who does not gaze at me	C2
Yon winding sands	Y
Were solitary once as the wide sea	C2
Such I remember them No sound was heard	K2
Save of the sea gull warping on the wind	K2
Or of the surge that broke along the shore	L2
Sad as the seas and can I e'er forget	K2
When once a visitor from Oxenford	K2
Proud of Wintonian scholarship a youth	I2
Silent but yet light hearted deeming here	R2
I could have no companion fit for him	S2
So whispered youthful vanity for him	S2
Whom Oxford had distinguished can my heart	K2
Forget when once with thoughts like these at morn	T2
I wandered forth alone The first ray shone	U2
On the white sea gull's wing and gazing round	K2
I listened to the tide's advancing roar	L2
When for the old and booted fisherman	V2
Who silent dredged for shrimps in the cold haze	W2
Of sunrise I beheld or was it not	K2
A momentary vision a fair form	X2
A female following with light airy step	Y2
The wave as it retreated and again	L
Tripping before it till it touched her foot	K2
As if in play and she stood beautiful	Z2
Like to a fairy sea maid of the deep	A3
Graceful and young and on the sands alone	U2
I looked that she would vanish She had left	K2
Like me just left the abode of discipline	B3
And came in the gay fulness of her heart	K2
When the pale light first glanced along the wave	O2
To play with the wild ocean like a child	K2
And though I knew her not I vowed oh hear	R2
Ye votaries of German sentiment	K2
Vowed an eternal love but diffident	K2
I cast a parting look that seemed to say	B
Shall we ne'er meet again The vision smiled	K2
And left the scene to solitude Once more	L2
We met and then we parted in this world	K2
To meet no more and that fair form that shone	U2
The vision of a moment on the sands	Y
Was never seen again Now it has passed	K2
Where all things are forgotten but it shone	U2
To me a sparkle of the morning sun	B3
That trembled on the light wave yesterday	B
And perished there for ever	C3
Look around	K2
Above the winding reach of Severn stands	Y
With massy fragments of forsaken towers	D3
Thy castle solitary Walton Hark	E3
Through the lone ivied arch was it the wind	K2
Came fitful There by moonlight we might stand	K2
And deem it some old castle of romance	F3
And on the glimmering ledge of yonder rock	G3
Above the wave fancy it was the form	X2
Of a spectre lady for a moment seen	H3
Lifting her bloody dagger then with shrieks	I3
Vanishing Hush there is no sound no sound	K2
But of the Severn sweeping onward Look	Q2
There is no bleeding apparition there	E
No fiery phantoms glare along thy walls	J2
Surrounded by the works of silent art	K2
And far far more endearing by a group	J3
Of breathing children their possessor lives	K3
And ill should I deserve the name of bard	K2
Of courtly bard if I could touch this theme	L3
Without a prayer an earnest heartfelt prayer	E
When one whose smile I never saw but once	M3
Yet cannot well forget when one now blooms	N3
Unlike the spectre lady of the rock	G3
A living and a lovely bride	K2
How proud	K2
Opposed to Walton's silent towers how proud	K2
With all her spires and fanes and volumed smoke	O3
Trailing in columns to the midday sun	B3
Black or pale blue above the cloudy haze	W2
And the great stir of commerce and the noise	P3
Of passing and repassing wains and cars	Q3
And sledges grating in their underpath	I2
And trade's deep murmur and a street of masts	R3
And pennants from all nations of the earth	I2
Streaming below the houses piled aloft	K2
Hill above hill and every road below	S3
Gloomy with troops of coal nymphs seated high	P
On their rough pads in dingy dust serene	H3
How proudly amid sights and sounds like these	T3
Bristol through all whose smoke dark and aloof	U3
Stands Redcliff's solemn fane how proudly girt	K2
With villages and Clifton's airy rocks	V3
Bristol the mistress of the Severn sea	C2
Bristol amid her merchant palaces	W3
That ancient city sits	T
From out those trees	T3
Look Congresbury lifts its slender spire	X3
How many woody glens and nooks of shade	K2
With transient sunshine fill the interval	Z2
As rich as Poussin's landscapes Gnarled oaks	Y3
Dark or with fits of desultory light	K2
Flung through the branches there o'erhang the road	K2
Where sheltered as romantic Brockley Coombe	Z3
Allures the lingering traveller to wind	K2
Step by step up its sylvan hollow slow	S3
Till the proud summit gained how gloriously	C2
The wide scene lies in light how gloriously	C2
Sun shadows and blue mountains far away	B
Woods meadows and the mighty Severn blend	K2
While the gray heron up shoots and screams for joy	F2
There the dark yew starts from the limestone rock	G3
Into faint sunshine there the ivy hangs	A4
From the old oak whose upper branches bare	E
Seem as admonishing the nether woods	B4
Of Time's swift pace while dark and deep beneath	I2
The fearful hollow yawns upon whose edge	C4
One peeping cot sends up from out the fern	D4
Its early wreath of slow ascending smoke	O3
And who lives in that far secluded cot	K2
Poor Dinah She was once a serving maid	K2
Most beautiful now on the wild wood's edge	C4
She lives alone alone and bowed with age	E4
Muttering and sad and scarce within the sound	K2
Of human kind forsaken as the scene	H3
Nor pass we Fayland with its fairy rings	F4
Marking the turf where tiny elves may dance	F3
Their light feet twinkling in the dewy gleam	L3
By moonlight But what sullen demon piled	K2
The rocks that stern in desolation frown	G4
Through the deep solitude of Goblin Coombe	Z3
Where wheeling o'er its crags the shrilling kite	K2
More dismal makes its utter dreariness	H4
But yonder at the foot of Mendip smiles	I4
The seat of cultivated Addington	B3
And there that beautiful but solemn church	J4
Presides o'er the still scene where one old friend	K2
Lives social while the shortening day unfelt	K2
Steals on and eve with smiling light descends	K4
With smiling light that lingering on the tower	C3
Reminds earth's pilgrim of his lasting home	L4
Is that a magic garden on the edge	C4
Of Mendip hung Even so it seems to gleam	L3
While many a cottage on to Wrington's smoke	O3
Wrington the birth place of immortal Locke	G3
Chequers the village crofts and lowly glens	M4
With porch of flowers and bird cage at the door	L2
That seems to say England with all thy crimes	N4
And smitten as thou art by pauper laws	O4
England thou only art the poor man's home	L4
And yonder Blagdon in its sheltered glen	L
Sits pensive like a rock bird in its cleft	K2
The craggy glen here winds with ivy hung	P4
Beneath whose dark depending tresses peeps	Q4
The Cheddar pink there fragments of red rock	G3
Start from the verdant turf among the flowers	D3
And who can paint sweet Blagdon and not think	R4
Of Langhorne in that hermitage of song	S4
Langhorne a pastor and a poet too	K2
He in retirement's literary bower	C3
Oft wooed the Sisters of the sacred well	P2
Harmonious nor pass on without a prayer	E
For her associate of his early fame	T4
Accomplished eloquent and pious More	L2
Who now with slow and gentle decadence	M3
In the same vale with look upraised to heaven	B3
Waits meekly at the gate of paradise	U4
Smiling at time	V4
But hark there comes a song	S4
Of Scotland's lakes and hills Auld Robin Gray	B
Tweed or the winding Tay ne'er echoed words	W4
More sadly soothing but the melody	K2
Like some sweet melody of olden times	N4
A ditty of past days rose from those woods	B4
Oh could I hear it as I heard it once	M3
Sung by a maiden of the south whose look	Q2
Although her song be sweet whose look and life	J
Are sweeter than her song no minstrel gray	B
Like Donald and the Lady of the Lake	X4
But would lay down his harp and when the song	S4
Was ended raise his lighted eyes and smile	G2
To thank that maiden with a strain like this	Y4
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Oh when I hear thee sing of Jamie far away	B
Of father and of mother and of Auld Robin Gray	B
I listen till I think it is Jeanie's self I hear	R2
And I look in thy face with a blessing and a tear	E
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I look in thy face for my heart it is not cold	K2
Though winter's frost is stealing on and I am growing old	K2
Those tones I shall remember as long as I live	Z4
And a blessing and a tear shall be the thanks I give
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The tear it is for summers that so blithesome have been
For the flowers that all are faded and the days that I have seen	H3
The blessing lassie is for thee whose song so sadly sweet	K2
Recalls the music of Lang Syne to which my heart has beat	K2