Thoughts motherly and meek as womanhood.
Wisdom doth live with children round her knees;
Books, leisure, perfect freedom, and the talk
Man holds with week-day man in the hourly walk
Of the mind’s business; these are the degrees
By which true sway doth mount; this is the stalk
True Power doth grow on; and her rights are these.
We will now extract a magnificent example of abstract imagination, growing out of the meditative imagination, and penetrated by it. It is the “Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland;” the “two voices” are England and Switzerland.
Two Voices are there; one is of the sea,
One of the mountains; each a mighty Voice: