MS. [984] 1835. In plunged the Knight--he strove in vain. Brief words may speak the rest; MS. [985] 1835. ... temptation ... MS. [986] Compare the _Ode to Duty_, vol. iii. p. 37:-- From vain temptations dost set free--ED. XLVII TO CORDELIA M----[987] HALLSTEADS, ULLSWATER Not in the mines beyond the western main, You say, Cordelia,[988] was the metal sought, Which a fine skill, of Indian growth, has wrought Into this flexible yet faithful Chain; Nor is it silver of romantic Spain 5 But from our loved Helvellyn's[989] depths was brought, Our own domestic mountain. Thing and thought Mix strangely; trifles light, and partly vain, Can prop, as you have learnt, our nobler being: Yes, Lady, while about your neck is wound 10 (Your casual glance oft meeting) this bright cord, What witchery, for pure gifts of inward seeing, Lurks in it, Memory's Helper, Fancy's Lord, For precious tremblings in your bosom found! FOOTNOTES: [987] Cordelia Marshall.--ED. [988] 1845. You tell me, Delia!... 1835. [989] 1845. You say but from Helvellyn's ... 1835. XLVIII "MOST SWEET IT IS WITH UNUPLIFTED EYES"[990] Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes To pace the ground, if path be there or none, While a fair region round the traveller lies[991] Which he forbears again to look upon; Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene, 5 The work of Fancy, or some happy tone Of meditation, slipping in between The beauty coming and the beauty gone.[992] If Thought and Love desert us, from that day Let us break off all commerce with the Muse: 10 With Thought and Love companions of our way, Whate'er the senses take or may refuse, The Mind's internal heaven shall shed her dews Of inspiration on the humblest lay. FOOTNOTES: [990] The title to this sonnet, in the editions previous to 1845, was _Conclusion_. [991] 1835. While round the conscious traveller beauty lies MS. [992] 1835. Pleased rather with that soothing after-tone Whose seat is in the mind, occasion's Queen! Else Nature's noblest objects were I ween A yoke endured, a penance undergone. MS. 1834 The Poems of 1834 include four of the _Evening Voluntaries_, _The Labourer's Noon-day Hymn_, and the stanzas to _The Redbreast_.--ED. "NOT IN THE LUCID INTERVALS OF LIFE" Composed 1834.--Published 1835