One of the "Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces."--ED. By vain affections unenthralled, Though resolute when duty called To meet the world's broad eye, Pure as the holiest cloistered nun That ever feared the tempting sun, 5 Did Fermor live and die. This Tablet, hallowed by her name,[410] One heart-relieving tear may claim; But if the pensive gloom Of fond regret be still thy choice, 10 Exalt thy spirit, hear the voice Of Jesus from her tomb! "I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE." In the letter to Lady Beaumont, referred to in the notes, the title of this poem is "Inscription in the Church of Coleorton," and a footnote is added, "Say, to the left of the vista, within the thicket, below the churchyard wall.--M. W." Mrs. Wordsworth also says, "To fit the lines, intended for an urn, for a Monument, W. has altered the closing stanza, which (though they are not what he would have produced had he first cast them with a view to the Church) he hopes you will not disapprove."--ED. FOOTNOTES: [410] 1842. This cenotaph that bears her name, MS. Mrs. Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont. This sacred stone that bears her name, MS. Mrs. Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont. 1825 Three Poems were written in 1825, _The Pillar of Trajan_, _The Contrast: The Parrot and the Wren_, and the lines _To a Skylark_.--ED. THE PILLAR OF TRAJAN Composed 1825.--Published 1827 [These verses perhaps had better be transferred to the class of "Italian Poems." I had observed in the newspaper, that the Pillar of Trajan was given as a subject for a prize-poem in English verse. I had a wish perhaps that my son, who was then an undergraduate at Oxford, should try his fortune, and I told him so; but he, not having been accustomed to write verse, wisely declined to enter on the task; whereupon I showed him these lines as a proof of what might, without difficulty, be done on such a subject.--I.F.] From 1827 to 1842 one of the "Poems of Sentiment and Reflection"; in 1845 one of the "Memorials of a Tour in Italy."--ED.