Leave to the nightingale her[421] shady wood; A privacy of glorious light is thine; Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood Of harmony, with instinct[422] more divine; 10 Type of the wise who soar, but never roam; True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home! Compare this with the earlier poem _To a Skylark_, written in 1805, and both poems with Shelley's still finer lyric to the same bird, written in 1820. See also the _Morning Exercise_ (1828), stanzas v.-x. The eighth stanza of that poem was, from 1827 to 1842, the second stanza of this one. The poem was published in the _Poetical Album_, for 1829, edited by Alaric Watts, vol. ii. p. 30.--ED. FOOTNOTES: [419] 1827. ... thy ... _Poetical Album_, 1829. [420] The following second stanza occurs only in the editions 1827-43-- To the last point of vision, and beyond, Mount, daring Warbler! that love-prompted strain, ('Twixt thee and thine a never-failing bond) Thrills not the less the bosom of the plain: Yet might'st thou seem, proud privilege! to sing All independent of the leafy spring. [421] 1827. ... the ... _Poetical Album_, 1829. [422] 1832. ... rapture ... 1827. 1826 The poems composed in 1826 were six. They include two referring to the month of May, and two descriptive of places near Rydal Mount.--ED. "ERE WITH COLD BEADS OF MIDNIGHT DEW" Composed 1826.--Published 1827 [Written at Rydal Mount. Suggested by the condition of a friend.--I. F.] One of the "Poems founded on the Affections."--ED. Ere with cold beads of midnight dew Had mingled tears of thine, I grieved, fond Youth! that thou shouldst sue To haughty Geraldine. Immoveable by generous sighs, 5 She glories in a train Who drag, beneath our native skies, An oriental chain. Pine not like them with arms across, Forgetting in thy care 10 How the fast-rooted trees can toss Their branches in mid air. The humblest rivulet will take Its own wild liberties; And, every day, the imprisoned lake 15 Is flowing in the breeze. Then, crouch no more on suppliant knee, But scorn with scorn outbrave; A Briton, even in love, should be A subject, not a slave! 20 ODE COMPOSED ON MAY MORNING Composed 1826.--Published 1835