Up to Heaven through peaceful ways.

In a letter to Henry Reed, July 1845.

AT FURNESS ABBEY

Composed 1845.—Published 1845

One of the “Miscellaneous Sonnets.”—Ed.

Well have yon Railway Labourers to THIS ground

Withdrawn for noontide rest. They sit, they walk

Among the Ruins, but no idle talk

Is heard; to grave demeanour all are bound;