The shadow of the leaf and stem above Those fronting elms, and now with blackest mass Sings in the bean-flower! Henceforth I shall know *Flew creeking o'er thy head, and had a charm For thee, my gentle-hearted CHARLES! to whom No sound is dissonant, which tells of Life. ESTEESI. *Flew creeking.-Some months after I had written this line, it gave me pleasure to observe that Bartram had observed the same circumstance of the Savannah Crane. "When these birds move their wings in flight, their strokes are slow, moderate and regular; and even when at a considerable distance, or high above us, we plainly hear the quill feathers, their shafts and webs upon one another creek as the joints or working of a vessel in a tempestuous sea. 1 SONNET I. **Much* on my early youth I love to dwell," Of some new-practis'd game, some new-bought toy: My prattling tongue its story would repeat ! Which thus on life's sweet prime their lustre shed! With second beam to gild my orphan head COLERIDGE. K SONNET II. Written at MATLOCK. Matlock, as through thy cliff-sprung woods I rove How oft his heart, that seat of faithful love, SONNET III. While as I wander thro' thy time-worn walls J. W. T. |