Dreaining on things to come; and dost possess A metropolitan temple in the hearts Of mighty Poets: upon me bestow A gift of genuine insight; that my Song Of those mutations that extend their sway This Vision; when and where, and how he lived; May sort with highest objects, then-dread Power! Express the image of a better time, More wise desires, and simpler manners;-nurse 1 THE WANDERER ARGUMENT. A Summer Forenoon-The Author reaches a ruined Cottage upon a Common, and there meets with a revered friend, the Wanderer, of whose education and course of life he gives an account.-The Wanderer, while resting under the shade of the trees that surround the Cottage, relates the History of its last Inhabitant. 'TWAS summer, and the sun had mounted high: A surface dappled o'er with shadows flung Where the wren warbles, while the dreaming man, With side-long eye looks out upon the scene, To finer distance. Mine was at that hour Far other lot, yet with good hope that soon Upon that open moorland stood a grove, An iron-pointed staff lay at his side. Him had I marked the day before—alone And stationed in the public way, with face Detained for contemplation or repose, Graceful support; his countenance as he stood At such unthought-of meeting.-For the night |