INSCRIPTION For the Spot where the HERMITAGE stood on St. Herbert's Island, Derwent-Water. If thou in the dear love of some one friend Make the heart sink, then wilt thou reverence And here, for many seasons, from the world This island's sole inhabitant! had left A Fellow-labourer, whom the good Man lov'd While o'er the lake the cataract of Lodore Peal'd to his orisons, and when he pac'd INSCRIPTION For the House (an Outhouse) on the Island at Grasmere. Rude is this Edifice, and Thou hast seen With the ideal grace. Yet as it is Do take it in good part; for he, the poor From the great city; never on the leaves The skeletons and pre-existing ghosts It is a homely pile, yet to these walls The heifer comes in the snow-storm, and here His pinnace, a small vagrant barge, up-piled Lie round him, even as if they were a part Fair sights, and visions of romantic joy. |