Composed 1835.—Published 1835
[Written on a journey from Brinsop Court, Herefordshire.—I.F.]
One of the “Miscellaneous Sonnets.”—Ed.
When human touch (as monkish books attest)
Nor was applied nor could be, Ledbury bells
Broke forth in concert flung adown the dells,
And upward, high as Malvern’s cloudy crest;[52]
Sweet tones, and caught by a noble Lady blest 5
To rapture! Mabel listened at the side
Of her loved mistress: soon the music died,