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If . It wm the prime jest of tlte marriage-day ; And the more jest , that she was serious , And looked upon the bridegroom silently .
None knew whence came that Old Man quietly , Nor why he came , to that green lane-side house ; And with its folks made profitable stay : Hut there he was ; and yet the churchyard waits For some whose hands he shook ; and they are advocate * ,
III . Of all he said and did , as said and done By a wise creature , far above themselves , Inspired of God , a teacher and a priest !
Whilst the sun travelled to west from east , He made rich profit of the glorious sun ; And many an old book took from laden shelve ? , And pored thereon ; and frequent spake aloud ; And often on the page his placid forehead bow'd .
IV . But when o ' er heaven dim the twilight came ; And in the depths of night—with stars and moon , Or with thick darkness and its muniments
Of cloud and storm —of varying elements Clothed to the need ; he wander'd , to commune With thoughts that hidden lay—as central flame In a cilm mount—' mid his soul ' s hush'd abysses ; Theie crouch'd like panthers fierce in awful wildernesses
V . Forth wandered he , as one most intimate With all the lone w&ys of the country round . Thro * fields by dense woods amphitheatred , And thro' the wood way windings intricate , And by clear pools in which was imaged The gloom above , and runlets whose sweet sounds , Tinkling , the Vast Silence did inhearsc—As doth one taper small Night ' s starless Universe .
VI . Upon the midway currurc of a hill , Beside a public pathway , richly hidden By lofty hedgerows and by treea encircled , A cottage in the midst of shadows darkle 1 . A spectre haunted there at midnight Btill . And round it wander'd like a thing forbidden ; And seena'd to flit about the garden gtound } Qtforloxia liouri stood fi& ' dai in a ttanoe pxofonuL
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1836, page 346, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2658/page/18/
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