MS. written by Dorothy Wordsworth. [558] 1835. To a voice like bird in bower. MS. by Dorothy Wordsworth. ... birds ... MS. by Mrs. Wordsworth. [559] 1835. Like them who _think_ they hear, We listened still; for _English_ words Had dropped upon the ear. MS. by Mrs. Wordsworth. The strain seemed doubly dear, Yea passing sweet--for English words Had dropt upon the ear. MS. by Dorothy Wordsworth. [560] 1835. When ... MS. by Dorothy Wordsworth. [561] Compare the Sonnet-- It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun.--ED. [562] 1835. The restless heart is not unwise, MS. by Dorothy Wordsworth. [563] 1835. When even ... MS. by Dorothy Wordsworth. [564] 1835. Sad is thy doom, imprisoned dove, Whoe'er thou mayest be. MS. by Dorothy Wordsworth. A GRAVE-STONE UPON THE FLOOR IN THE CLOISTERS OF WORCESTER CATHEDRAL Composed 1828.[565]--Published 1829 (in _The Keepsake_) ["Miserrimus." Many conjectures have been formed as to the person who lies under this stone. Nothing appears to be known for a certainty. Query--The Rev. Mr. Morris, a non-conformist, a sufferer for conscience-sake; a worthy man who, having been deprived of his benefice after the accession of William III., lived to an old age in extreme destitution, on the alms of charitable Jacobites.--I.F.] One of the "Miscellaneous Sonnets."--ED. "_Miserrimus!_" and neither name nor date, Prayer, text, or symbol, graven upon the stone;[566] Nought but that word assigned to the unknown, That solitary word--to separate From all, and cast a cloud around the fate 5 Of him who lies beneath. Most wretched one, _Who_ chose his epitaph?--Himself alone Could thus have dared the grave to agitate, And claim, among the dead, this awful crown; Nor doubt that He marked also for his own 10 Close to these cloistral steps a burial-place, That every foot might fall with heavier tread, Trampling upon his vileness. Stranger, pass Softly!--To save the contrite, Jesus bled. FOOTNOTES: [565] This, and the following sonnet on the tradition of Oker Hill, first published in _The Keepsake_ of 1829, appeared in the 1832 edition of the Poetical Works.--ED.