"And whence that tribute? wherefore these regards?[GY] Not from the naked _Heart_ alone of Man (Though claiming high[507] distinction upon earth 980 As the sole spring and fountain-head of tears, His own peculiar utterance for distress Or gladness)--No," the philosophic Priest Continued, "'tis not in the vital seat Of feeling to produce them, without aid 985 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[508] look to heaven; The other that empowers him to perceive 990 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: 995 Thus are they born, thus fostered, thus[509] 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 1000 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 1005 For Man's affections--else betrayed and lost, And swallowed up 'mid deserts infinite! This is the genuine course, the aim, and end Of prescient reason; all conclusions else Are abject, vain, presumptuous, and perverse. 1010 The faith partaking of those holy times, Life, I repeat, is energy of love Divine or human; exercised in pain, In strife, in tribulation; and ordained, If so approved and sanctified, to pass, 1015 Through shades and silent rest, to endless joy."[GZ]
_Sight of a large and populous Vale--Solitary consents to go forward--Vale described_-- 1814. ]
And guardian rocks!--With unreverted eyes I cannot pass thy bounds, attractive Seat! 1814. ]
Upon the side Of that brown ridge, sole outlet of the Vale, Lingering 1814.
... of a troubled World. And now, pursuing leisurely my way, How vain, thought I, it is by change of place 1814. ]
Obscurity, and calm forgetfulness. 1814. ]
The text of 1836 returns to that of 1814.]
To that injunction, earnestly expressed, He yielded, ... 1814. ]