That spann’d the total of humanity:

These were the gifts which God pour’d forth at large

On men through him; and he was faithful to his charge.”

“TO WORDSWORTH, ON VISITING THE DUDDON.

I.

“So long as Duddon, ’twixt his cloud-girt walls

Thridding the woody chambers of the hills,

Warbles from vaulted grot and pebbled halls

Welcome or farewell to the meadow rills;

So long as linnets pipe glad madrigals