LINES WRITTEN AT WARWICK.
Variant of title:
GUY OF WARWICK. A POEM IN PRAISE OF GUY.
l. 12. for some read her.
l. 39. her food was men. (U.P.)
ON A DRAWING OF THE ELM TREE, ETC.
Variant of title:
A DRAWING OF THE WATERLOO TREE.
after l. 6:
Of him who bad the World’s disturber cease
From his dire course, and gave the Nations peace.
l. 14. for thy read this.
l. 19. Shall see thy glory.
l. 20. for a read their.
after l. 27:
In times far off shall the ambitious Muse
That Field of Glory for her subject choose;
When every spot where noble deeds were done—
And not a spot was there unmarked by one—
Each little space, unknown thro’ many a year,
Shall then in some immortal verse appear.
Here fell some Hero; there the foe began
To feel his Fate and learn that he was Man,
And doomed to yield—not now, as when he fled }
Through Northern Climes, and o’er the frozen Bed }
Of Icy Death, and o’er the unwounded Dead— }
But Man to Man, and Troop to Troop, the last
Hard Strife for Conquest—and then all was past.
Here stood this Tree, and, tho’ no more it stands,
Its very Picture our Respect commands,
Thanks to the Skill that gives to many an Eye
The view that every Heart must gratify.
Trees may, perhaps, of loftier kind be found,
But none more glorious in the World around.
after l. 30:
Yet no Memorial shall that Field require
That shall the Soldier, that the Britton, fire;
And many a Pilgrim to that Field shall go, }
To see where stood the Chief when fled the Foe, }
And talk at his return of Deeds at Waterloo. (U.P.)}
ON RECEIVING ... A PRESENT OF A RING.
After l. 26:
The fond Esteem by Time endear’d,
The Worth respected, lov’d, revered,
Of either Heart the Knowledge gain’d
That nothing there is false or feign’d,
And all the dear domestic Cares
And Joys that Friendship soothes or shares. (U.P.)
TO A LADY ... AT SIDMOUTH.
Instead of ll. 3–4:
Must go, and leave my aching Heart,
What must that Heart adore, behind me.
l. 21. for makes read wakes.
l. 28. for those read more. (B.)
TO SARAH, COUNTESS OF JERSEY....
Title. The date, 4 March 1814, is added.
l. 6. for a read the.
l. 12. for to read do.
l. 13. for should read to. (B.)
l. 5. for As read Like.
l. 7. for when read while.
l. 8: He checks the Spirit that he tries to raise.
l. 22: Those Charms that seize the Eye or win the Heart.
l. 23. for propitious read returning. (M.)