BELVOIR CASTLE.
Title. for Written at the request of the Duchess Dowager of Rutland ... read Written at the request of Mary Isabella, Duchess Dowager of Rutland ...
l. 18. for recess read keep.
l. 51. for Then read There.
l. 69. for massy read mossy.
after l. 74:
“I fear, when this my noble Work decays,
None then shall live a rival Pile to raise.
after l. 78:
In the still Night and in his Hours of Rest }
Thoughts of the kind in Dreams his Soul possess’d; }
He view’d the Place he lov’d, and what he felt express’d: }
“Hail, favorite Seat, The Valley’s Crown and Pride!
Would in thy Glory thou might’st still abide,
Nor feel the Lapse of Ages; but thy Doom,
Strong as Thou art, and Beautiful, must come.
When thou art then but as a Ruin known,
And a new Structure to that Age is shown,
Like the First Temple’s shall thy Fortune be;
The Old shall sigh an humble Dome to see;
That Lord himself will say—‘In ancient Time,
Not in our days, were built the Towers Sublime;
We cannot equal Works so grand, so vast;
The Wealth is wanted, and the Power is past,
Gone is the Glory of the far-fam’d Hill;
The Sons arrive not at their Fathers’ Skill,
O’er what vast space the Noble Ruins press,
And Time has done what Time cannot redress.’”
l. 79. for sigh’d read spake.
l. 111. for kingdoms read islands.
l. 112. for And one great sovereign read And but one sovereign.
after l. 116:
“And all thy Building can of Fate obtain
Is, that with his some Portion may remain.”
after l. 120:
“I see them yet; Those Terraces I trace,
That noble Tower, that light but sacred Place.
Yes Time shall be that, what the Vision told,
In very Truth shall that blest Age behold;
And then this Mansion I so proudly made,
These strong Foundations for my Glory laid,
Shall to another yield its honour’d Name,
And a new Belvoir shine in cloudless Fame.”
l. 123. for pile shall mine read Work shalt thou.
l. 124. for his read them.
l. 125. for its read thy. (B.)