ADDENDA
(1) p. [35]. How soon—alas! etc.
The following version is written in the late Lord Coleridge's copy of the Poems:—
Alas! full soon did man created pure,
By Angels guarded, deviate from the line
Of innocence, and woeful forfeiture
Incur by wilful breach of law divine.
Even so Christ's church, how prone was she to appear
Obedient to her Lord, how prompt to twine
'Mid glorious flowers that shall for aye endure,
Weeds on whose front the world hath fixed her sign.
So Man, if with thy trials thus it fares,
And good can smooth the way to evil choice,
From hasty censure be the mind kept free.
He only judges right who weighs, compares,
And in the sternest sentence, which his voice
May utter, ne'er abandons Charity.
C.
(2) p. [83]. Down a swift stream, etc., l. 14—
The manifold aspects of our sacred theme.
C.
(3) p. [86]. Bishops and Priests, etc., l. 1—
... how blessed ...
C.
The extract is from The Shepherd and the Calm, p. [113], in Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions, written by a Lady, Anne Finch, Countesse of W., 1713.
(5) p. [306]. Fancy and Tradition, l. 4—
Ere he took flight; the Sage in this alcove
MS.
(6) p. [307]. Fancy and Tradition, l. 12—
There is an ampler page from which to quote,
MS.
(7) p. [342]. Adieu, Rydalian Laurels, etc., l. 2—
As if not ignorant that days would come
MS.
(8) p. [358]. Stanzas suggested in a Steam-boat, ll. 156-9—
Would merge, Idolatress of formal skill,
In her own systems, God's eternal will,
To her, despising faith in things unseen,
Matter and spirit are in one machine.
C.
END OF VOL. VII
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