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...Maxwell, CB :> Principally from " The United Service Journal." No. XXVII. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, Esg. " Call it not vain ! they do not err Who say that when a poet dies Mute nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies." " No man was ever more...

...the spot.' Do you recollect Scott's own lines in the fifth canto of the Lay of the Last Minstrel 2 'Call it not vain ; they do not err, Who say that...Who say tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed hard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill, That flowers in tears of halm distil; Through...

...the spot.' Do you recollect Scott's own lines in the fifth canto of the Lay of the Last Minstrel ? ' Call it not vain ; they do not err, Who say that when...worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say tall clifTand cavern lone For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill, That flowers...

...necessary a part of wisdom to know what to believe, as what to reject. MRS. MONTAGU. CALL it not rain :—they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies,...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. WALTER SCOTT. TRUE Dignity is his whose tranquil mind Virtue has rais'd above the things below ; Who,...

...the fifth canto of the Lay of the Last Minstrel 1 ' Call it not vain ; they do not err, Who say thai when the poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies : Who say tall clirTand cavern lone For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill, That flowers...

...Smiled then, well pleased, the Aged Man, And thus his tale continued ran. I. CALL it Bot Tain: — they do not err, Who say, that, when the Poet dies,...his obsequies; Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, Per the departed bard make moan; That mountains weep in crystal rill; That Sowers in tears of balm...

...and beloved land, mourned the loss of their minstrels faithful song. In his own touching strains, " Call it not vain ; they do not err, Who say, that...the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in chrystal rill, That flowers in tears of balm distil, Through his lov'd groves that breezes sigh, And...

...stranger coincidence remains, for both died upon the same day. If it be indeed true then, that, — " they do not err Who say that when the Poet dies Mute...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies," — how shall we be able to estimate the grief which pervaded Spain and England, on the 12th of April,...

...passage in the lay of the Last Minstrel, which he had thus noticed with a pencil in reading it to her. " Call it not vain, they do not err Who say, that when...mourns her worshipper And celebrates his obsequies." &e. And then Mr. Rollestone's pencilled lines ; " And knows not he, to whom belong The deepest mysteries...