[THE SONNET.]

By WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.

Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room;

And hermits are contented with their cells;

And students with their pensive citadels:

Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom,

Sit blithe and happy; bees that soar for bloom,

High as the highest peak of Furness-fells,

Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells: