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Poet's genius will shed a more ethereal light over the whole district, 

 and will disclose the inmost soul of Nature, and the boundless 

 significance of Life to the English generations of the future. 



He found us when the age had bound 

 Our souls in its benumbing round ; 

 He spoke, and loosed our hearts in tears. 

 He laid us as we lay at birth 

 On the cool flowery lap of earth, 

 SmUes broke from us, and we had ease ; 

 The hills were round us, and the breeze 

 Went o'er the sunlit fields again ; 

 Our fo7-eheads felt the wind and rain. 

 Our yortth returned ; for there was shed. 

 On spirits that had long been dead. 

 Spirits dried up and closely furl' d. 

 The freshness of the early world. 



^ DEC188S 



O. AND T. COWARD, FRINTEES, CAEtlSLE. 



