The vapours linger round the Heights, TO A SKYLARK. Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will, To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring warbler! that love-prompted strain Leave to the nightingale her shady wood; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home! 1825.] 1 This stanza appeared only in the editions of 1827-43. In 1845 it was transferred to "A Morning Exercise." / Into the Depth of Clouds, that Neil thy breast_ Thou too agam stupendous Mountain. ! those, That once в I raise my Head, awhile bow'd low In adoration; upward from-thy Bave Flow- travelling, with dim eyes, suffused with. Tears, To rise before. Vapoury Cloud, five, fr ever. Rise, o ev Rise, like a Cloud of Inceive, from the Earth ! Thon Kingly Spirit throwid Great Hierarch ! tell than the among the Hills, Thon dread Ambassador from Earth to Heaven vilent Sun, And tete the Stars, and tell you rising Fac-simile of one stanza of "Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamounix," copied by Coleridge in a letter to Mrs. Brabant, 1815. |