The settled heart of Vengeance daunt, "With hackbut bent, my secret stand, "Dark Morton, girt with many a spear, "Glencairn and stout Parkhead were nigh, And haggard Lindesay's iron eye, That saw fair Mary weep in vain. "Mid pennon'd spears, a steely grove, 1 "The death-shot parts-the charger springs---- And Murray's plumy helmet rings- "What joy the raptured youth can feel, Or he, who broaches on his steel The wolf by whom his infant fell! 135 140 145 150 155 160 165 "But dearer to my injured eye To see in dust proud Murray roll; 170 WORDSWORTH. ODE. INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF I. THERE was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The things which I have seen I now can see no more! II. The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose; The moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath past away a glory from the earth. III. Now, while the birds thus sing a joyous song, As to the tabor's sound, To me alone there came a thought of grief; |