...thus his tale continued ran. Smiled then, well-pleased, the CANTO FIFTH. I. CALL it not vain:—they do not err. Who say, that when the Poet dies Mute Nature mourus her worshipper. And celebrates his obsequies: Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, That mountains...

...dust ; while Nature herself may be said, in his own beautiful lines, to do homage to his memory. " Call it not vain, — they do not err, who say that when the poet dies, That Nature mourns her worshipper, and celebrates his obsequies, And rivers teach the rushing wave...

...pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Embittering all his state." (176.) SET F. " They do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute nature moans her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies ; Who say tall cliff and cavern lone For the departed...

...Deloraine leaves the field, he pronounces a long eulogy and lament over his fallen enemy. fftftfe. i. CALL it not vain : — they do not err, Who say,...obsequies ; Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, 5 For the departed bard make moan ; That mountains weep in crystal rill ; That flowers in tears of...

...followed. Every reader will remember the pretty pantheism which opens the fifth canto of the ' Lay : ' ' Call it not vain : they do not err Who say, that when...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.' Here the poet, after fully indulging his fancy, knew that he was asking rather too much from the reader's...

...affairs, we may compare the well-known passage (Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel, canto V.), beginning Call' it not vain — they do not err, Who say, that,...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. all her gates are desolate] Compare Jer. xiv. 2, with note. her virgins are afflicted] They are mentioned...

...18. Who says in verse what others say in prose. J. POPE — £pist!':s of Horace. Bk. II. Line 202. •Call it not vain; — they do not err, Who say,...mourns her worshipper. And celebrates his obsequies, e. SCOTT — The Lay of the Last 3finslrel. Canto V. St. 1. Never durst poet touch a pen to write,...

...but he studies in the fields." No wonder then that Nature has been said to return the poet's love. " Call it not vain ; — they do not err Who say that,...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies." l Swinburne says of Blake, and I feel entirely with him, though in my case the application would have...

...Syntax must suffer too, as in the case of the later versifier, who after much agony over Scott's " Call it not vain ; they do not err, Who say, that...mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies," produced " Figmentum cogita non." Peter de Weston's will is given at length by Mr. Stahlschmidt. It...

...strings Boldlier swept, the long segwacious notes Over delicious surges sink and rise.— Coleridge. Call it not vain ; they do not err Who say, that when the poet dies, Mute A~o<ure mourns her worshiper, And celebrates his obsequies.— Scott. I passed some time in Poet's...