No more; Time halts not in his noiseless march-- Nor turns, nor winds, as doth the liquid flood; Life slips from underneath us, like that arch Of airy workmanship whereon we stood,[574] 85 Earth stretched below, heaven in our neighbourhood. Go forth, my little Book! pursue thy way; Go forth, and please the gentle and the good; Nor be a whisper stifled, if it say That treasures, yet untouched, may grace some future Lay. 90 Mrs. Wordsworth's Journal of this Continental Tour contains the modest entry, made at "Paris, Monday, Oct. 2nd.--... I shall here close these very imperfect notices, commenced at D.'s request; and with a notion, on my part, that they might be useful when she wrote her Journal: but soon finding that, with such a view, mine was a superfluous labour, I should not have had the resolution to go on, except at Wm.'s desire, and from the feeling that my Daughter, and perhaps her brothers, might one day find pleasure, should they ever have the good fortune to trace our steps, in recognising objects their Mother had seen." See Dorothy Wordsworth's Itinerary of the Tour (Note A), in the Appendix to this volume.--ED. VARIANTS: [Footnote 572: 1827. ... heart-striking sound! Tumult by prompt repose and awful silence crown'd! 1822. ] [Footnote 573: 1827. Leads ... 1822. ] [Footnote 574: 1827. And those surrounding Mountains--but no more; Time creepeth softly as the liquid flood; Life slips from underneath us, like the floor Of that wide rainbow-arch whereon we stood, 1822. ] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote JH: In the third of the Desultory Stanzas I am indebted to Mr. Raymond, who has written with genuine feeling on these subjects.--W. W. 1822.] [Footnote JI: Les Fourches, the point at which the two chains of mountains part, that enclose the Valais, which terminates at St. Maurice.--W. W. 1822. At the head of the Vallais.--W. W. 1827.] [Footnote JJ: Compare the sonnet _Tynwald Hill_, in the "Poems composed or suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833."--ED.] [Footnote JK: In the edition of 1822 there is the following note, the reference being to "Ye who convoked in Sarnen occupy," a reading which does not occur in that or in any other edition.--ED.