They leave, and speed on nightly embassy
To visit earthly chambers,—and for whom?
Yea, both for souls who God’s forbearance try,
And those that seek his help, and for his mercy sigh.
[257] Compare To the Cuckoo (vol. ii. p. 289)—
O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird,
Or but a wandering Voice?
Ed.
[258] Professor Dowden has appropriately called attention to the fact that the cuckoo-clock at Rydal Mount was not stopped during Wordsworth’s last illness.—Ed.