There was another tour in Scotland in 1833, which produced _Memorials_ of little poetic value. And in 1837 he made a long tour in Italy with Mr. Crabb Robinson. But the poems which record this tour indicate a mind scarcely any longer susceptible to any vivid stimulus except from accustomed objects and ideas. The _Musings near Aquapendente_ are musings on Scott and Helvellyn; the _Pine Tree of Monte Mario_ is interesting because--Sir George Beaumont has saved it from destruction; the _Cuckoo at Laverna_ brings all childhood back into his heart. "I remember perfectly well," says Crabb Robinson, "that I heard the cuckoo at Laverna twice before he heard it; and that it absolutely fretted him that my ear was first favoured; and that he exclaimed with delight, 'I hear it! I hear it!'" This was his last foreign tour; nor, indeed, are these tours very noticeable except as showing that he was not blindly wedded to his own lake scenery; that his admiration could face comparisons, and keep the same vividness when he was fresh from other orders of beauty. The productions of these later years took for the most part a didactic rather than a descriptive form. In the volume entitled _Poems chiefly of Early and Later Years_, published in 1842, were many hortatory or ecclesiastical pieces of inferior merit, and among them various additions to the _Ecclesiastical Sketches_, a series of sonnets begun in 1821, but which he continued to enlarge, spending on them much of the energies of his later years. And although it is only in a few instances--as in the description of King's College, Cambridge--that these sonnets possess force or charm enough to rank them high as poetry, yet they assume a certain value when we consider not so much their own adequacy as the greater inadequacy of all rival attempts in the same direction. The Episcopalian Churchman, in this country or in the United States, will certainly nowhere find presented to him in poetical form so dignified and comprehensive a record of the struggles and the glories, of the vicissitudes and the edification, of the great body to which he belongs. Next to the Anglican liturgy--though next at an immense interval--these sonnets may take rank as the authentic exposition of her historic being--an exposition delivered with something of her own unadorned dignity, and in her moderate and tranquil tone.