Within the sheltering Lighthouse.--Shout, ye Waves! Send forth a song of triumph. Waves and Winds, Exult in this deliverance wrought through faith 85 In Him whose Providence your rage hath served![418] Ye screaming Sea-mews, in the concert join! And would that some immortal Voice--a Voice Fitly attuned to all that gratitude Breathes out from floor or couch, through pallid lips 90 Of the survivors--to the clouds might bear-- Blended with praise of that parental love, Beneath whose watchful eye the Maiden grew Pious and pure, modest and yet so brave, Though young so wise, though meek so resolute-- 95 Might carry to the clouds and to the stars, Yea, to celestial Choirs, GRACE DARLING’S name! [414] Grace Darling was the daughter of William Darling, the lighthouse keeper on Longstone, one of the Farne Islands on the Northumbrian coast. On the 7th of September 1838, the Forfarshire steamship was wrecked on these islands. At the instigation of his daughter, and accompanied by her, Darling went out in his lifeboat through the surf, to the wreck, and --by their united strength and daring--rescued the nine survivors.--ED. [415] St. Cuthbert of Durham, born about 635, was first a shepherd boy, then a monk in the monastery of Melrose, and afterwards its prior. He left Melrose for the island monastery of Lindisfarne; but desiring an austerer life than the monastic, he left Lindisfarne, and became an anchorite, in a hut which he built with his own hands, on one of the Farne Islands. He was afterwards induced to accept the bishopric of Hexham, but soon exchanged it for the see in his old island home at Lindisfarne, and after two years there resigned his bishopric, returning to his cell in Farne Island, where he died in 687. His remains were carried to Durham, and placed within a costly shrine.--ED. [416] Fifty-four persons had perished, before Grace Darling’s lifeboat reached the wreck.--ED. [417] 1845. As if the wrath and trouble of the sea Were by the Almighty’s sufferance prolonged, In privately printed edition. [418] 1845. For the last three lines, the privately printed edition has the single one-- Pipe a glad song of triumph, ye fierce Winds. “WHEN SEVERN’S SWEEPING FLOOD HAD OVERTHROWN” Composed 23rd January 1842.--Published 1842 In 1842 a bazaar was held in Cardiff Castle to aid in the erection of a Church, on the site of one which had been washed away by a flood in the river Severn (and a consequent influx of waters into the estuary of the British Channel) two hundred years before. Wordsworth and James Montgomery were asked to write some verses, which might be printed and sold to assist the cause. They did so. The following was Wordsworth’s contribution.--ED.