An over-payment of delight?”
If the mothers of England become Catholic, England becomes Catholic. The law is of nature. Love must win, if talent partly fails; for even in heaven the seraphim, which signifies love, is nearer God than the cherubim, which signifies knowledge.
ON A CHARGE MADE AFTER THE PUBLICATION OF A VOLUME OF POETRY
(WRITTEN NEAR WINDERMERE.)
Beautiful Land! They said, “He loves thee not!”
But in a church-yard ’mid thy meadows lie
The bones of no disloyal ancestry.
To whom in me disloyal were the thought
Which wronged thee. For my youth thy Shakspeare wrought;