Sky, mountains, river, winds, lake, lightnings! Ye! With night, and clouds, and thunder, and a soul To make these felt and feeling, well may be Things that have made me watchful; the far roll Of your departing voices, is the knoll 900 Of what in me is sleepless,-if I rest. But where of ye, oh tempests! is the goal? Are ye like those within the human breast? Or do ye find, at length, like eagles, some high nest? 270 I learn'd the language of another world. Such names at present cut a convict figure, The very Botany Bay' in moral geography; Their loyal treason, renegado vigour, Are good manure for their more bare biography. way, is 845 Wordsworth's last quarto, by the 1 The equal rule of all. Southey and Coleridge, when young men, planned to found a Utopian society on the banks of the Susquehanna. They called it Pantisocracy, 2 After ardently advocating Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, in his youth, Wordsworth in later life became more conservative and even accepted a post under the government. An allusion to an early poem of Wordsworth's on Peter Bell, a pedlar. 4 The Misses Fricker of Bath. The well known convict colony in New South Wales. 7 Joanna Southcote was a visionary, born in Devon about 1750, who prophesied that she would give birth to a second Shiloh, or Prince of Peace, on Oct. 19th, 1814. Instead, she fell into a trance and died in the same year. 8 The celebrated pine forest called La Pineta, the most venerable forest in Italy. Boccaccio chose this forest for the scene of a ghastly story, Nostalgia degli Onesti, in which the mounted spectre of a knight pursues with dogs the ghostly form of a woman who in life repelled his love with scorn. Dryden used the legend in his poem of Theodore and Honoria. |