Eclipsing or eclipsed, by night or day,
And from example of thy monthly range
Gently to brook decline and fatal change;
Meek, patient, stedfast, and with loftier scope, 55
Than thy revival yields, for gladsome hope![21]
[19] Compare The Triad, vol. vii. p. 181.—Ed.
[20] Compare l. 6 of Shakespeare’s sonnet, beginning—
Let me not to the marriage of true minds.
Ed.
[21] See a fragment of ten lines, which was written by Wordsworth in MS. after the above, in a copy of his poems. They are printed in the Appendix to this volume.—Ed.