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Matlock amid thy hoary hanging views	A
Thy glens that smile sequestered and thy nooks	B
Which yon forsaken crag all dark o'erlooks	B
Once more I court the long neglected Muse	B
As erst when by the mossy brink and falls	B
Of solitary Wainsbeck or the side	C
Of Clysdale's cliffs where first her voice she tried	C
I strayed a pensive boy Since then the thralls	B
That wait life's upland road have chilled her breast	D
And much as much they might her wing depressed	D
Wan Indolence resigned her deadening hand	E
Laid on her heart and Fancy her cold wand	F
Dropped at the frown of fortune yet once more	G
I call her and once more her converse sweet	H
'Mid the still limits of this wild retreat	H
I woo if yet delightful as of yore	G
My heart she may revisit nor deny	I
The soothing aid of some sweet melody	J
I hail the rugged scene that bursts around	K
I mark the wreathed roots the saplings gray	L
That bend o'er the dark Derwent's wandering way	L
I mark its stream with peace persuading sound	K
That steals beneath the fading foliage pale	M
Or at the foot of frowning crags upreared	K
Complains like one forsaken and unheard	K
To me it seems to tell the pensive tale	M
Of spring time and the summer days all flown	N
And while sad autumn's voice ev'n now I hear	O
Along the umbrage of the high wood moan	N
At intervals whose shivering leaves fall sere	P
Whilst o'er the group of pendant groves I view	Q
The slowly spreading tints of pining hue	Q
I think of poor Humanity's brief day	K
How fast its blossoms fade its summers speed away	K
When first young Hope a golden tressed boy	R
Most musical his early madrigal	S
Sings to the whispering waters as they fall	T
Breathing fresh airs of fragrance and of joy	R
The wild woods gently wave the morning sheds	B
Her rising radiance on the mountain heads	B
Strewed with green isles appears old ocean's reign	U
And seen at distance rays of resting light	K
Silver the farthest promontory's height	K
Then hushed is the long murmur of the main	U
Whilst silent o'er the slowly crisping tides	B
Bound to some beaming spot the bark of pleasure glides	B
Alas the scenes that smile in light arrayed	K
But catch the sense and then in darkness fade	K
We poor adventurers of peace bereft	K
Look back on the green hills that late we left	K
Or turn with beating breast and anxious eye	I
To some faint hope that glimmering meets our sight	K
Like the lone watch tower in the storm of night	K
Then on the dismal waste are driv'n despairing by	I
Meantime amid the landscape cold and mute	K
Hope sweet enchanter sighing drops his lute	K
So sad decay and mortal change succeeds	B
And o'er the silent scene Time like a giant speeds	B
Yet the bleak cliffs that lift their heads so high	I
Around whose beetling crags with ceaseless coil	V
And still returning flight the ravens toil	V
Heed not the changeful seasons as they fly	I
Nor spring nor autumn they their hoary brow	W
Uprear and ages past as in this now	W
The same deep trenches unsubdued have worn	X
The same majestic frown and looks of lofty scorn	X
So Fortitude a mailed warrior old	K
Appears he lifts his scar intrenched crest	K
The tempest gathers round his dauntless breast	K
He hears far off the storm of havoc rolled	K
The feeble fall around their sound is past	K
Their sun is set their place no more is known	N
Like the wan leaves before the winter's blast	K
They perish He unshaken and alone	N
Remains his brow a sterner shade assumes	B
By age ennobled whilst the hurricane	U
That raves resistless o'er the ravaged plain	U
But shakes unfelt his helmet's quivering plume	Y
And so yon sovereign of the scene I mark	Z
Above the woods rear his majestic head	K
That soon all shattered at his feet shall shed	K
Their short lived beauties he the winter dark	Z
Regardless and the wasteful time that flies	B
Rejoicing in his lonely might defies	B
Thee wandering in the deep and craggy dell	A2
Sequestered stream with other thoughts I view	Q
Thou dost in solitude thy course pursue	Q
As thou hadst bid life's busy scenes farewell	A2
Yet making still such music as might cheer	P
The weary passenger that journeys near	P
Such are the songs of Peace in Virtue's shade	K
Unheard of Folly or the vacant train	U
That pipe and dance upon the noontide plain	U
Till in the dust together they are laid	K
But not unheard of Him who sits sublime	B2
Above the clouds of this tempestuous clime	B2
Its stir and strife to whom more grateful rise	B
The humble incense and the still small voice	B
Of those that on their pensive way rejoice	B
Than shouts of thousands echoing to the skies	B
Than songs of conquest pealing round the car	C2
Of hard Ambition or the Fiend of War	G
Sated with slaughter Nor may I sweet stream	B2
From thy wild banks and still retreats depart	K
Where now I meditate my casual theme	B2
Without some mild improvement on my heart	K
Poured sad yet pleasing so may I forget	K
The crosses and the cares that sometimes fret	K
Life's smoothest channel and each wish prevent	K
That mars the silent current of content	K
In such a spot amidst these rugged views	B
The pensive poet in his drooping age	D2
Might wish to place his reed roofed hermitage	E2
Where much on life's vain shadows he might muse	B
If fortune smiled not on his early way	K
If he were doomed to mourn a faithless friend	K
Here he might rest and when his hairs were gray	K
Behold in peace the parting day descend	K
If a hard world his errors scanned severe	P
When late the earth received his mouldering clay	K
Perhaps some loved companion wandering near	P
Plucking the gray moss from the stone might say	K
Him I remember in our careless days	B
Vacant and glad till many a loss severe	P
First hung his placid eyelids with a tear	F2
Yet on such visions ardent would he gaze	B
As the Muse loved that oft would smile and die	I
Like the faint bow that leaves the weeping sky	I
His heart unguarded yet it proudly beat	K
Against hard wrong or coward cold deceit	K
Nor passed he e'er without a sigh the cell	A2
Where wretchedness and her pale children dwell	A2
He never wished to win the world's cold ear	O
Nor prized by those he loved its blame could fear	P
Its praise he left to those who at their will	G2
The ingenious strain of torturing art could trill	G2
Content as random fancies might inspire	H2
If his weak reed at times or plaintive lyre	H2
He touched with desultory hand and drew	Q
Some softened tones to Nature not untrue	Q
The leaves O Derwent on thy bosom still	G2
Oft with the gust now fall the season pale	M
Hath smote with hand unseen the silent vale	M
And slowly steals the verdure from the hill	G2
So the fair scene departs yet wears a while	I2
The lingering traces of its beauteous smile	I2
But we who by thy margin stray or climb	B2
The cliff's aerial height or join the song	J2
Of hope and gladness amidst yonder throng	J2
Losing the brief and fleeting hours of time	B2
Reck not how age even thus with icy hand	K
Hangs o'er us how as with a wizard's wand	K
Youth blooming like the spring and roseate mirth	K2
To slow and sere consumption he shall change	L2
And with invisible mutation strange	L2
Withered and wasted send them to the earth	K2
Whilst hushed and by the mace of ruin rent	K
Sinks the forsaken hall of merriment	K
Bright bursts the sun upon the shaggy scene	M2
The aged rocks their glittering summits gray	K
Hang beautiful amid the beams of day	K
And all the woods with slowly fading green	M2
Yet smiling wave severer thoughts away	K
The night is distant and the lovely day	K
Looks on us yet the sound of mirthful cheer	P
From yonder dome comes pleasant to mine ear	O
From rock to rock reverberated swells	B
Hark the glad music of the village bells	B
On the crag's naked point the heifer lows	B
And wide below the brightening landscape glows	B
Though brief the time and short our course to run	N2
Derwent amid the scenes that deck thy side	K
Ere yet the parting paths of life divide	K
Let us rejoice seeking what may be won	N2
From the laborious day or fortune's frown	O2
Here may we	J

William Lisle Bowles

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