Even Strangers, slackening here their pace, Shall hail this work of pious care, Lifting its ... 1827. [348] Compare _Glen-Almain_ (vol. ii. p. 394)-- A convent, even a hermit's cell, Would break the silence of this Dell.--ED. [349] 1827. Nor storms henceforth, nor weary ways, Shall be ... MS. sent to Lord Lonsdale. [350] 1827. The Aged shall be free to hear The Promise, caught with steadfast ear. MS. sent to Lord Lonsdale. [351] 1832. Not yet the corner stone is laid With solemn rite; but Fancy sees The tower time-stricken, and in shade Embosomed of coeval trees; Hears, o'er the lake, the warning clock As it shall sound with gentle shock 1827. [352] Compare the last stanza of _The Wishing Gate_.--ED. [353] Compare the _Ode, Intimations of Immortality_, stanza xi.--ED. [354] 1827. With one who fosters disregard MS. sent to Lady Beaumont. [355] 1827. Yea, strives for others to bedim The glorious Light too pure for him. 1832. The text of 1845 returns to that of 1827. [356] 1827. ... happy ground. MS. to Lady Beaumont. [357] 1827. From Scoffers leagued in desperate plot To make their own the general lot; MS. to Lady Beaumont. [358] 1827. ... do defy, MS. to Lady Beaumont. [359] See _The Faërie Queene_, book I. canto i. stanza 37. Also Shakespeare's _Henry VIII._, act II. scene ii. l. 44.--ED. [360] See _Paradise Lost_, book ii. l. 58.--ED. [361] 1832. Through Rydal Cove from Fairfield's side, MS. to Lady Beaumont. Through Mosedale-Cove from Carrock's side, 1827. [362] Dorothy Wordsworth wrote to Henry Crabb Robinson (December 21, 1822), "William has just written a poem upon the Foundation of a Church, which Lady Fleming is about to erect at Rydal. It is about 80 lines. I like it much." This letter was obviously written before the poem reached its final form.--ED. ON THE SAME OCCASION Composed 1822.--Published 1827 One of the "Poems of Sentiment and Reflection" from the edition of 1827 to that of 1843. In 1835 transferred to the "Miscellaneous Poems."--ED. Oh! gather whencesoe'er ye safely may The help which slackening Piety requires; Nor deem that he perforce must go astray Who treads upon the footmarks of his sires.