POETRY.
INSORI PrION
AT BT. MARY'S ABBEY, WINDERMERE, THE RESIDENCE OF F. PIERREI'ONT BARNARD, ESQ
GUEST of this fair abode, before thee rise
No summits vast, that icily remote Cannot forget their own magnificence Or once put off their kinghood ; but withal A confraternity of stateliest brows, As Alp or Atlas noble, in port and mien; Old majesties, that on their secular seats Enthroned, are yet of affable access And easy audience, not too great for praise, Not arrogantly aloof from thy concerns, Not vaunting their indifference to thy fate, Nor so august as to contemn tby love.
Do hemage to these suavely etolatot;
But privy to their bosoms wonldst thou be, There is a vale, whose seaward-parted lips Murmur eternally some half-divulged Reluctant secret, where thou mayst o'erhear The mountains interchange their confidences, Peak with his federate peak, that think aloud Their broad and lucid thoughts, in liberal day : Thither repair alone : the mountain heart Not two may enter ; thence returning, tell What thou hast heard; and 'mid the immortal friends Of mortals, the selectest fellowship Of poets divine, place shall be found for thee.
WILLIAM WATSON'.
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