[120] The Cistertian order was named after the monastery of Citéaux or Cistercium, near Dijon, founded in 1098 by the Benedictine abbot, Robert of Molême.--ED. [121] 1837. ... with nicer heed, 1822. [122] "Bonum est nos hic esse, quia homo vivit purius, cadit rarius, surgit velocius, incedit cautius, quiescit securius, moritur felicius, purgatur citius, praemiatur copiosius."--Bernard. "This sentence," says Dr. Whitaker, "is usually inscribed on some conspicuous part of the Cistertian houses."--W. W. 1822. [123] 1827. ... desire; 1822. IV[124] "DEPLORABLE HIS LOT WHO TILLS THE GROUND" Published 1835 Deplorable his lot who tills the ground, His whole life long tills it, with heartless toil Of villain-service, passing with the soil To each new Master, like a steer or hound, Or like a rooted tree, or stone earth-bound; 5 But mark how gladly, through their own domains, The Monks relax or break these iron chains; While Mercy, uttering, through their voice, a sound Echoed in Heaven, cries out, "Ye Chiefs, abate These legalized oppressions! Man--whose name 10 And nature God disdained not; Man--whose soul Christ died for--cannot forfeit his high claim To live and move exempt from all controul Which fellow-feeling doth not mitigate!" FOOTNOTES: [124] The following note, referring to Sonnets IV., XII., and XIII., appears in the volume of 1835--entitled _Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems_--immediately after the poem _St. Bees_-- "The three following Sonnets are an intended addition to the 'Ecclesiastical Sketches,' the first to stand second; and the two that succeed, seventh and eighth, in the second part of the Series. (See the Author's Poems.) They are placed here as having some connection with the foregoing Poem."--ED. V MONKS AND SCHOOLMEN Record we too, with just and faithful pen, That many hooded Cenobites[125] there are, Who in their private cells have yet a care Of public quiet; unambitious Men, Counsellors for the world, of piercing ken; 5 Whose fervent exhortations from afar Move Princes to their duty, peace or war;[126] And oft-times in the most forbidding den Of solitude, with love of science strong, How patiently the yoke of thought they bear! 10 How subtly glide its finest threads along! Spirits that crowd the intellectual sphere[127] With mazy boundaries, as the astronomer With orb and cycle girds the starry throng. FOOTNOTES: [125] Cenobites (#koinobioi#), monks who live in common, as distinguished from hermits or anchorites, who live alone.--ED.