ENVY sate guiding--ENVY, hag-abhorr'd! Like JUSTICE mask'd, and doom'd to aid the fight 410 Victorious 'gainst oppression. Hush'd awhile 4{o}. [These lines were assigned by Coleridge to Southey.] [434] with] by 4{o}. [437-8] Shriek'd AMBITION'S ghastly throng And with them those the locust Fiends that crawl'd[146:A] 4{o}. [146:A] --if Locusts how could they _shriek_? I must have caught the contagion of _unthinkingness_. _S. T. C._ _4{o}_. [458] heavenly] goodly 4{o}. [463] Love] Law 4{o}. For lines 470-74 vide _ante_ var. of lines 130 foll. VER PERPETUUM[148:1] FRAGMENT From an unpublished poem. The early Year's fast-flying vapours stray In shadowing trains across the orb of day: And we, poor Insects of a few short hours, Deem it a world of Gloom. Were it not better hope a nobler doom, 5 Proud to believe that with more active powers On rapid many-coloured wing We thro' one bright perpetual Spring Shall hover round the fruits and flowers, Screen'd by those clouds and cherish'd by those showers! 10 1796. FOOTNOTES: [148:1] First published without title ('_From an unpublished poem_') in _The Watchman_, No. iv, March 25, 1796, and reprinted in _Literary Remains_, 1836, i. 44, with an extract from the Essay in the _Watchman_ in which it was included:--'In my calmer moments I have the firmest faith that all things work together for good. But alas! it seems a long and dark process.' First collected with extract only in Appendix to 1863. First entitled 'Fragment from an Unpublished Poem' in 1893, and 'Ver Perpetuum' in 1907. ON OBSERVING A BLOSSOM ON THE FIRST OF FEBRUARY 1796[148:2]