Coleridge uses the same idea in his Friend, No. xiv. p. 223.:
"An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire-steeples; which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and stars; and sometimes, when they reflect the brazen light of a rich though rainy sunset, appear like a pyramid of flame burning heavenward."
F. R. M., M.A.
The following lines conclude a pretty little poem of Rogers's, entitled A Wish. They furnish at any rate a parallel passage to, if not the correct version of, the above:
"The village church, among the trees,
Where first our marriage vows were given,
With merry peals shall shell the breeze,
And point with taper spire to heaven."
C. W. B.
Henry Earl of Wotton (Vol. viii., pp. 173. 281. 563.).—In reply to the editors of the Navorscher I have to state—