...its Sounds at distance swell, Shall sadly seem in pity's ear To hear the woodland pilgrim's knell. Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames...suspend the dashing oar, To bid his gentle spirit rest l And oft, as ease and health retire To breezy lawn, or forest deep, The friend shall view yon whitening...

...and reveals himself, a solitary, brooding figure amid a landscape darkened by the clouds of sorrow : And oft as Ease and Health retire To breezy lawn,...whitening spire, And 'mid the varied landscape weep. Here, as in the Dirge in Cymbeline, the grave of the dead is to be visited by more than merely abstract...

...Remembrance, Joy and Fancy, and — Tears, which Love and Pity shed, That mourn beneath the gliding sail. Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames...suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest ! There is the same rustic imagery, in which the musing poet tells how — Hinds, and shepherd-girls...

...its sounds at distance swell, Shall sadly seem in Pity's ear To hear the woodland pilgrim's knell. " Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames...wreaths is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar, i To bid his gentle spirit rest. '* And oft, as ease and health retire To breezy lawn, or forest deep....

...this stanza : — " Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames in summer wreath is dressed, And oft suspend the dashing oar, To bid his gentle spirit rest." The last verse of Wordsworth's little poem runs thus : — " Now let us as we float along, For him...

...(4) p. 7, 1.150. (5) Percy Soc., No. 35 1843. (6) Works of Collins, Aldine Ed., 1830, p. 63. 195 " Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames...suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest ".* Thomas Warton's poem in memory of " Frederick, Prince of Wales "2 is poor and artificial in extreme,...

...subject tide." Collins, writing on Thomson's death, has some beautiful lines, from among which are : " Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames...suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest." Wordsworth, too, has written of the river here : " Glide gently, thus for ever glide, O Thames, that...

...' surviving duplicate' finds exquisite expression in Collins' poem on the death of Thomson : — " Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames in Summer wreaths is dress'd ; And oft shall stay the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest." It is believed that the...

...its sounds at distance swell, Shall sadly seem in Pity's ear To hear the Woodland Pilgrim's knell. Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames...whitening * spire, And 'mid the varied landscape weep. 1 The harp of ^Eolus, of which see a description in the " Castle of Indolence." 8 Richmond Church....

...its sounds at distance swell, Shall sadly seem in Pity's ear To hear the Woodland Pilgrim's knell. Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames...or forest deep, The friend shall view yon whitening 2 spire, And 'mid the varied landscape weep. 1 The harp of .SJolus, of which see a description in the...