ON THE PROJECTED KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY
Composed October 12, 1844.—Published 1844[277]
One of the “Miscellaneous Sonnets.”—Ed.
Is then no nook of English ground secure
From rash assault?[278] Schemes of retirement sown
In youth, and ’mid the busy world kept pure
As when their earliest flowers of hope were blown,
Must perish;—how can they this blight endure? 5
And must he too the ruthless change bemoan
Who scorns a false utilitarian lure