Chanter by heaven attracted, whom no bars 55 To daylight known deter from that pursuit, 'Tis well that some sage instinct, when the stars Come forth at evening, keeps Thee still and mute; For not an eyelid could to sleep incline Wert thou among them, singing as they shine![516] 60 FOOTNOTES: [509] See Waterton's _Wanderings in South America_.--W. W. 1832. Compare the reference to the "Melancholy Muccawiss" in _The Excursion_, book iii. l. 947 (vol. v. p. 140), and the note [dagger] in that page, with the appendix note C, p. 393.--ED. [510] Compare the two last lines of the poem _To a Skylark_, 1825-- Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home!--ED. [511] Compare in Shelley's _Ode to the Skylark_, stanza ii.-- And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.--ED. [512] This stanza was included in the _Morning Exercise_, for the first time, in 1845. It had been previously the second stanza of the poem _To a Skylark_, composed in 1825, and first published in 1827.--ED. [513] 1836. The harmony that thou best lovest to make 1832. [514] 1836. ... his blank domain! 1832. [515] The muse who presided over astronomy.--ED. [516] Compare, in Addison's hymn in _The Spectator_, No. 465 (August 23), stanza iii. l. 7-- For ever singing as they shine.--ED. THE TRIAD[517] Composed 1828.--Published 1829 (in _The Keepsake_) [Written at Rydal Mount. The girls, Edith Southey, my daughter Dora, and Sara Coleridge.--I. F.] One of the "Poems of the Imagination."--ED. Show me the noblest Youth of present time, Whose trembling fancy would to love give birth; Some God or Hero, from the Olympian clime Returned, to seek a Consort upon earth; Or, in no doubtful prospect, let me see 5 The brightest star of ages yet to be, And I will mate and match him blissfully. I will not fetch a Naiad from a flood Pure as herself--(song lacks not mightier power) Nor leaf-crowned Dryad from a pathless wood, 10 Nor Sea-nymph glistening from her coral bower; Mere Mortals bodied forth in vision still, Shall with Mount Ida's triple lustre fill[518] The chaster coverts of a British hill.