[146] Sir Richard Hoare's tower at Stourhead.
[147] Lacock Abbey.
[148] Bowood, Mr Dickenson's and Mr Methuen's magnificent mansion.
[149] Lacock Abbey.
[150] The venerable Catholic Countess, who resides in the abbey.
SUN-DIAL, IN THE CHURCHYARD OF BREMHILL.
So passes silent o'er the dead thy shade,
Brief Time; and hour by hour, and day by day,
The pleasing pictures of the present fade,
And like a summer vapour steal away!
And have not they, who here forgotten lie
(Say, hoary chronicler of ages past!)
Once marked thy shadow with delighted eye,
Nor thought it fled, how certain, and how fast!
Since thou hast stood, and thus thy vigil kept,
Noting each hour, o'er mouldering stones beneath;
The pastor and his flock alike have slept,
And dust to dust proclaimed the stride of death.