Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear To humbler functions, awful Power! The spirit of self-sacrifice; 15 The confidence of reason give; 50 55 And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live! ELEGIAC STANZAS SUGGESTED BY A PICTURE OF PEELE CASTLE I was thy neighbor once, thou rugged Pile! thee: I saw thee every day; and all the while Thy form was sleeping on a glassy sea. |