From the pure Soul, the Soul sublime and pure;
With her two faculties of Eye and Ear,

The one by which a Creature, whom his sins

Have rendered prone, can upward look to heaven; The other that empowers him to perceive

The voice of Deity, on height and plain

Whispering those truths in stillness, which the Word,
To the four quarters of the winds, proclaims.
Not without such assistance could the use

Of these benign observances prevail.

Thus are they born, thus fostered, and maintained;

And by the care prospective of our wise
Forefathers, who, to guard against the shocks,

The fluctuation and decay of things,
Embodied and established these high Truths

In solemn Institutions:-Men convinced
That Life is Love and Immortality,

The Being one, and one the Element.
There lies the channel, and original bed,

From the beginning, hollowed out and scooped
For Man's Affections-else betrayed and lost,
And swallowed up mid desarts infinite!

-This is the genuine course, the aim, and end,

Of prescient Reason; all conclusions else
Are abject, vain, presumptuous, and perverse.
The faith partaking of those holy times,
Life, I repeat, is energy of Love
Divine or human; exercised in pain,

In strife, and tribulation; and ordained,
If so approved and sanctified, to pass,
Through shades and silent rest, to endless joy."

END OF THE FIFTH BOOK.

BOOK THE SIXTH.

THE CHURCH-YARD AMONG THE

MOUNTAINS.

HAIL to the Crown by Freedom shaped-to gird
An English Sovereign's brow! and to the Throne
Whereon he sits! Whose deep foundations lie
In veneration and the People's love,

Whose steps are equity, whose seat is law.

-Hail to the State of England! And conjoin
With this a salutation as devout,

Made to the spiritual Fabric of her Church;
Founded in truth; by blood of Martyrdom
Cemented; by the hands of Wisdom reared

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In beauty of Holiness, with order'd pomp,
Decent, and unreproved. The voice, that greets
The majesty of both, shall pray for both;
That, mutually protected and sustained,
They may endure as long as sea surrounds
This favoured Land, or sunshine warms her soil.
–And, O, ye swelling hills, and spacious plains!
Besprent from shore to shore with steeple-towers,
And spires whose "silent finger points to Heaven;"
Nor wanting, at wide intervals, the bulk
Of ancient Minster, lifted above the cloud
Of the dense air, which town or city breeds.
To intercept the sun's glad beams—may ne'er
That true succession fail of English Hearts,
That can perceive, not less than heretofore
Our Ancestors did feelingly perceive,
What in those holy Structures ye possess
Of ornamental interest, and the charm
Of pious sentiment diffused afar,

And human charity, and social love.

-Thus never shall the indignities of Time Approach their reverend graces, unopposed; Nor shall the Elements be free to hurt