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t > 0 ORE ROSAMUND . I entered these precincts , and beheld a youth of manly form and countenance , washing and wiping a stone with a handful of wet grass ; and on my going up to him , and asking what he had found , he showed it to me . The next time I saw him was near the banks of the Cherwell . He had tried , it appears , to forget or overcome his foolish passion , and had applied his whole mind unto study . He was foiled by his competitor ;
to some of thine will be thrown in thy teeth out of Leviticus and Deuteronomy . '"—pp . 193—196 . # * * * * * " Ethelbert ! I think thou walkest but little ; otherwise I should take thee with me , some fine fresh morning , as far as unto the first hamlet on the Cherwell . There lies young Wellerby , who , the year before , was wont to pass many hours of the day poetising amidst the ruins of Godgson nunnery . It is said that he bore a fondness toward a young maiden in that place , formerly a village , now containing but two old farm-houses . In my memory there were still extant several dormitories . Some love-sick girl had recollected an ancient name , and had engraven on a stone with a garden-nail , which lay in rust near it ,
and now he sought consolation in poetry . Whether this opened the wounds that had closed in his youthful breast , and malignant Love , in his revenge , poisoned it ; or whether the disappointment he had experienced in finding others preferred to him , first in the paths of fortune , then in those of the muses , —he was thought to have died brokenhearted .
" About half a mile from St . John's College is the termination of a natural terrace , with the Cherwell close under it , in some places bright with yellow and red flowers glancing and glowing through the stream , and suddenly in others dark with the shadows of many different trees , in broad overbending thickets , and with rushes spear-high , and partycoloured flags . 4 After a walk in Midsummer , the immersion of our hands into the
cool and closing gxass is surely not the least among oux animal delights * I was just seated , and the first sensation of rest vibrated in me gently , as though it were music to the limbs , when I discovered by a hollow in the herbage that another was near . The long meadow-sweet and blooming burnet half concealed from me him whom the earth was about to hide totally and for ever . 4 Master Batchelor ! " said I , "it is ill-sleeping by the water-side /' 4 4
C No answer was returned . I arose , went to the place , and recognised poor Wellerby . His brow was moist , his cheek was warm . A few moments earlier , and that dismal lake whereunto arid wherefrom the waters of life , the buoyant blood , ran no longer , might have received one vivifying ray reflected from my poor casement . I might not indeed have comforted—I have often failed : but there is One who never has ; and the strengthener of the bruised reed should have been with us . ' " Remembering that his mother did abide one mile further onI
, walked forward to the mansion , and asked her what tidings she lately had received of her son . She replied , that having given up his mind to light studies , the fellows of the college would not elect Jbira . The master had warned him beforehand to abandon his selfish poetry , take up
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1835, page 54, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2641/page/54/
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