In all men, sinful is it to be slow
To hope——in Parents, sinful above all.
[49] Compare The Excursion (book iii. l. 649), and the sonnet (vol. vi. p. 72) beginning——
Surprised by joy——impatient as the Wind.
Ed.
“FOUR FIERY STEEDS IMPATIENT OF THE REIN”
Composed 1835.—Published 1835
[Suggested on the road between Preston and Lancaster where it first gives a view of the Lake country, and composed on the same day, on the roof of the coach.—I.F.]
One of the “Miscellaneous Sonnets.”—Ed.