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THE LIBRARY
OF
THE UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA
LOS ANGELES
THE
Summers's Night Lay^
A POEM ;
^w CJrce Cantos*
AUTHOR OF " CHESTERFIELD CHURCH."
CANTO I.
" Low walks the sun, and broadens by degrees,
Just o'er the verge of day. The shifting clouds
Assembled gay, a richly gorgeous train,
In all their pomp attend his setting throne."
Thompson's Summer.
CHESTERFIELD :
PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY T. WOODHEAD.
1823.
IT i8 a vitiated taste wbicli can only relish works of imagination.
The best, the most accredited of such works, will only hold a
secondary rank in the estimation of a mind, that has felt the
advantage of sober thought and calm investigation. But
though productions of an imaginative character, are not, in
point of worth and importance the first, they are not therefore
to be despised : if they do not form the substantial meal, they
may claim the merit of the elegant desert ;
if tliey do not con-
stitute a serious pursuit of life, they may certainly be numbered
among its ornaments and pleasures.
The genius for poetry, like genius ofall other kinds, is mostly
elicited in the first instances, in small and imperfect efi'orts.—
But small and imperfect as those beginuiugs of intellectual
enterprize may be, ou the patronage and success which they
obtain, often depends the fate of future years. The plaut, that
beneath wintry winds and inclement skies, fades, and droops,
and dies, would have reached its maturity, would have displayed
all its beauties, would have shed all its fragrance, in a milder
atmosphere, and under a summer's sun. It is the mark of a
generous and noble soul, to foster rather than to crush, to
countenance rather than to contenm, the early attempts of
genius and enterprize.
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IV PHEFACi:.
•
The pretensions of the following Poem are not iiigh. Whether
it is of a kind adapted to tlie prevailiu!;- taste of the age, admits
perhaps of a doubt. It is liowever such a Poem as fairly ex-
hibits the Author's thoughts and feelings at the time ;
and such
as he Lopes will not be found destitute of interest to those
who read it.
It is saying but little of a literary performance ofany kind, to
say, it will not offend. Yet inoffensiveness when associated
with other qualities of merit, is no despicable recommendation.
Happy would it be If some of the popular productions of the
day, were free from all things that offend ;
but if we acknow-
ledge ourselves charmed by their beauties and dazzled by their
splendours, we must on the other confess that we are disgtisted
at their impurities, and shocked at their profaneness.
With a measure of that excited feeling, that conflict of hope
and fear, of which no one that writes a book can fully divest
himself, the First Canto of the Summer's Night Lay, is
ventured on the ocean of public opinion. If it lives —well ;
if
not, the Author has this consolation, cold as it is, that he is not
the first, nor the last,— that thousands have been, and thousands
will be, engulphed in that stormy and oblivious deep.
ANALYSIS OF CANTO L
THE character of a Poet, shewing the love he has for the scenery
of Nature, whether beautiful, grand, or marvellous His love
of Fame his most prevailing passion The Author adverted to
A moderate love of Fame not inconsistent uith the character
of a Prelate Persons manifesting no emulation, thought to
have a predilection for wealth A short address to the genius
displayed in that inimitably beautiful Poem,
'
The MinstreV
A village maid (Clara,) adverted to, and considered as supplying
the want of a Patron Allusion to a lark Evening described,
in u-hich is a view of the sun; the sun ivhen setting, the most grand
of scenes ; the pleasure felt on the occasion, compared ivith other
pleasures, and preferred to them ; and the set-sun when the ap-
pearance of the skies are acknowledged as exceeding all description
Supposition that beyond our horizon, some Poet may be viewing
with wonder, the setting of the sun, the grandeur of the heavens,
Ifc Chesterfield church bells adverted to Night Descrip-
tion of the scenery, 3fc Night friendly to persons cultivating
mutual regards Their happiness in solitude, !fc The Author
adverts to similar happiness, and laments its departure The
impression made on his mind by the going away of Clara The
pleasure of seeing her, compared with, and preferred to other plea-
sures Supposition that it might have been better with the
Author had he died in infancy, Sfc The person of Clara described
A dream Asserted to be true The scene of it first in
a park, where is an allusion to the Derwent, then on a snowy moun-
tain, then in a wood surrounded with rocks, where a maid expires
with fright, and lastly, in a bed-chamber, where Clara lies near
death The horror felt on the occasion Supposition that it
might be occasioned by an unhappy spirit Clara Moon-rise
Beautiful, ifc Address to Melancholy Continuation
of the walk proposed.
raV:
THE
SUMMER'S NIGHT LAY.
Canto ^.
THE time taken up in this canto, is from about seven in the
evening, till near midnight The descriptive passages
describe the scenery from Chesterfield to Sutton, by Hady.
HOW wild and fanciful tlie Poet's soul !
How strangely roll his never-sated eyes !
From this low world to where far brighter roll.
He teaches his unbounded soul to rise.
Gliding athwart the vast and trackless skies :
From highest heaven down to deepest hell,
Like lightning's flash his vivid fancy flies ;
Marks the dark den where furious demons dwell ;
Hears the deep hollow groan, and loud terrific yell.
II.
But loves he not the scenes on earth beheld ?
The verdant woods — the flowery-dappled vales—
The rising hills — the sable clouds propelled
Upon the bosom of ambrosial gales
—
The limpid streams that murmur down the dales—
All that e'er flourished in the fruitful spring
—
And every bird that in the welkin sails—
With heaven's red fires that shoot on rapid wing
—
And the wild waiter's storm to his soul pleasures bring.
B
8 summer's night lay.
III.
Ave there no sounds on earth can cliarni liis ears ?
He loves the Usp of leaves when zephyrs hlow—
The niilk-niaid's song
— the hum of village farm—
The voiee of heavy waters when they How
J)own ragged roeks to foaming deeps below —
The erash of bellowing thur,der — the loud roar
Of oeean-water.s, that tunmltuous throw
'J'heir mountain billows on the rock-!)ound shore—
And the fierce howl of winds that sweep the forests o'er.
IV.
Soon as Aurora drives the shades of night,
And streaks with dawning day the eastern skies,
Behold him climbing up some lonely height,
O'er distant hills to view bright PhfFJjus rise :
The vapory clouds are dipped in golden dyes ;
And now up rolls his radiant car along ;
O'er dewy hills his brightning glory flies,
Cheering where'er it falls; the tuneful throng
"Waibiing, fill all the air with sw eet harmonious song.
V.
Where hums aloud the never-idle bee,
"When Phoebus sheds his hot meridian ray,
Beneath the cooling shade of some huge tree.
On mossy mound or cock of new-made hay,
He loves his languid listless liudis to lay.
Gazing around the bine and cloudless sky ;
Or listening to the linnet's mournful lay,
That sits in some adjacent bush to sigh
For her young stolen aw ay by impious cruelty.
VI.
Or in the deeper gloom of sylvan grove.
Where meeting blanches hide the orb of day,
He pores upon some favourite song of love ;
Or in some waking dream is wrapt away ;
Or listens to the blackbird's mellow lay :
And now he walks — and now stands statue-still,
G;>zing upon the amorous birds in play :
Now all at once he turns to yonder rill,
That nuirmurs as it laves the foot of towering hill.
summer's night lay. 9
VII.
AVhon the proud Day is waning to a close.
And J*li(iebus sinks upon the western main ;
Hunnning his wayward musings as lie g(»es,
lie strides in haste across the darkning plain,
Perhaps the summit of some lull to gain,
AVhere he nuiy walk in loneliness to list
The wakeful songster chant his evening strain ;
And view the vallies dimmed witii rising mist ;
And ^'ight's all-sileut gloom brood darkling in the east.
VIII.
Midnight when ghosts their gloomy deeds transact,
Can ne'er the ardours of his soul appal :
lie loves the bellowing of diead cataract.
And murnuir sweet of gentle water-fall :
The sound and sight of things both great and small
Are ever charming to his ears and eyes :
And whether dieaiy darkness covers all,
Or glory streams along cerulian skies,
He's ever 'wake to catch new fancies as they rise.
IX.
Dreams he not of the path which leads to fame ?
Takes he no step which he imagines may
Through future years perpetuat-e his name ?
For this he pores upon the classic la)* ;
For this he's ever watchful night and day
To mark each varying scene as hours go round.
Illumined with the sun or Cynthia's ray ;
For this he treads the valley
— climbs the mound—
And ever is alive to each melodious sound.
X.
May he who now attempts his voice to raise,
E'er by his song acquire a honest fame ?—
Who shuns the soul-enchanting sound of prai.'e ?—
The Prelate who ne'er felt ignoble flame—
Who utters oft Jehovah's aweful name—
Who ne'er of hateful pride was overcome—
Nor e'er did deed to cause him grief and shame—
Feels a fond passion rule his inmost home.
In all his private walks and labours in the dome.
10 SUMMER S NIGHT LAY.
XT.
love of fame ! the rigkl and severe
May stigmatize thee witli the name of pride ;
As if the best of passions given us here,
"Was what they might most harmlessly deride :
But these to Christians were not much allied,
Could we discern the motive of their actions :
Perhaps if by the true criterion tried.
They would be found to rivet their allections
To gold, for which they have a tliousand predilections.
XII.
Will he who now attempts his voice to raise,
Acquire a " honest fame"? can it e'er be
That the rough numbers of his artless lays
Should raise his name from dark obscurity ?
Hail, sweetest Minstrel *'of the north couutrie"!
As on I Avander o'er each lonely height.
Teach me to imitate thy minstrelsey,
(Thy flowing verse inspires a pure delight,)
^^'hile 1 song-smitten sing of Summer's lovely night.
XIII.
1 sing to court the favour of no kings,
Nor city lady of the higher class ;
Nor sweep my fingers o'er the sounding strings
Contemporary Poets to surpass :
I sing to please a lovely village lass,
Of lily bosom, brightly-beaming eye.
With lips as humid as the dewy grass.
But red as crimson cloud in evening sky.
And soul as soft and gentle as an angel's sigh.
XIV.
So sings the sky-lark early bred in spring,
His bosom glowing with the warmth of love :
Up yonder sky he mounts on volant wing.
The music of his little bill to prove ;
And far above church-spire or mountain-grove,
Warbles the welkins airy fields among :
Of all in earth below or heaven above.
He seeks to please no object with his song,
Save his new-chosen mate, fond as himself and young.
summer's NIGJrr LAY. 11
XV.
But hail, sweet Muse ! I must begin my Lay,
"Which may perhaps continue until nioin.
Forth goes the lover with his mistress gay,
Through verdant meads and fields of waving corn,
Breathing perfumes on balmy zephyrs borne :
'Mid echoing shouts the cricket-ball is driven
O'er ground by fiequent footsteps smoothly worn ;
The clang of quoit rings in the breeze of even ;
And the red orb of day ghdes down the western heaven.
XVI.
O'er yonder clouds that ride on steady gale,
"Whose higher borders flame empyreal bright,
How sweetly shines the sun adown the vale,
AVhich grows more golden with his oblique li^ht !
The long-winged swallow in her airy flight
Sports in the sunny beams around ; and lo !
Above embattled clouds a lofty height,
With crimson hues the lesser vapours glow:
How grand is heaven above ! how lovel}' earth below !
XVII.
There nothing is beneath heaven's canopy
So glorious as the broad refulgent sun.
Before he sinks upon th' Atlantic sea.
And Albion leaves besprent with shadow dun :
MiUions of burning rays before him run ;
And millions soar up heaven's boundless height ;
As many have on seas their dance begun ;
And some drive back the chariot of the night :
There's nothing so subhme —so God-like and so bright.
XVIII.
"Would I the pleasures of this hour forego
To fumble with the miser in his chest ?
The love of wealth is an eternal foe
To every generous feeling of the breast.
To sit with Epicure at splendid feast,
AVhere heady, but delicious bowk are quaffed ?
I would not be the Epicurean's guest !
He shuns the hill where evening zephyrs waft ;
Nor drinks at woodland spring the cool refreshing
draught.
12 summer's night lay,
XIX.
To mingle in the gay and giddy ring.
That moves in dance to varl)ling symphony ?
From such dehght, no real raptures spring,
But oft the cutting pangs of misery :
Far more than these 1 love tranijuillity ;
The present is a calm and tranquil time ;
The iields are drest in evening gaiety ;
The clear springs bubble with melodious chime ;
And the declining sun sits on his throne sublime.
XX.
Now o'er the distant hills with weaker blaze.
Lower and lower golden Pha^bus sinks :
Now we see not the radiance of his rays.
Save what yon long and wafery vapour drinks :
Yet lovelier scene was ne'er beheld methinks,
Than the sun setting as he sets to-night ;
And though I would, (my wakeful iancy shrinks.)
I cannot frame my humble rhymes aright.
To paint the mingling hues of blue and red and white,
XXI.
Beyond where heaven and earth appear to meet,
From the horizon far the sun may gleam
Upon some village lovely, lonely, sweet :
And there some Poet near his favourite stream,
Or on some hill may meet the goUlen beam.
And, feeling in his soul sweet raptures rise.
May start a moment from his waking dream.
And roll from north to south his sparkling eyes,
VieMUig the golden glories of th' aerial skies.
XXII.
Hark ! from the steeple of yon towering dome.
Comes the loud music of the tuneful bells ;
O'er yonder hills the flying changes roam,
And Echo answers from (he mai-shy dells :
The mellowing peal upon the soft wind swells.
As change ou change the merry bells ring round :
But now thoy settle; and where Silence dwells,
I wend my lonely way : hushed is each sound :
Save for my own rude pipe, 'twas silence all-profound.
summer's night lay. is
XXIII.
The sable Night now drives her rapid car,
And gloomy darkness rushes through the skies ;
And here and there a brightly-sparkling star
In that high canopy appears to rise :
The humid mist along the valley lies
^
In cloudy volumes; and on yonder hill
O'er sleeping woods the iiti'ul zephyr sighs ;
Down weedy shallow glides the silent rill :
How pensive is all round me! O how calm! howstilll
XXIV.
The weary mower now has left the field—
The waggon goes no more for load of hay
—
The rustic-band who fork and rake did wield,
Have long since plodded up the grass-grown way—
Fled oer yon hills is the last beam of day—
Hushed are the warblings of the w oodland lark—
And hushed is every other vocal lay,
Save her's that loves to w^arble in the dark, [haik.
Whom none but wakeful sprites, and wandering lovers
XXV.
This hour is dear to gentle lovers true ;
The hour they meet to give and take love's vow :
And ne'er two happier doves together flew.
Than are such lovers, when near rills that flow,
Kissing the banks where hmber osiers grow
—
Or in ambrosial bower, near bubbling spring.
They feel their hearts with heavenly raptures glow :
Their golden moments glide on angel-wing.
Each growing sweeter like succeeding days in spring.
XXVI.
heavens ! how sad and lonely do I feel !
—
1 once the thrilHngs of such bliss did prove :
'Twas when sweet Clara came with nimble heel,
To meet me in the solitary grove ;
Leaned on my breast, and heard my tale of love ;
Lavished on me the radiance of her eyes ;
Spoke words as sweet as angel-songs above ;
But now !
(flow out my tears and heave my sighs !)
My gentle Clara's fled, and with her all those joys.
14 summer's night lay.
XXVIT.
But when she left me, (what a pain was that !
I never wish to feel it o'er again ;
Nor ever will it be by me forgot :
^li, me ! I thought it would have cleft in twain
My very soul ! so piercing was the pain :)
She left what ne'er will leave me till I die,
Though roll between us the wide-foaming main.
Her weeping Image ; now it
clings me nigh,
Shewing its
pallid cheek, and downcast streaming eye,
XXVIII.
Tis sweet to see the dawn of morning, after
The horrid darkness of a moonless night :
^ris pleasant too, to hear the sound of laughter
As wakes the soul from sadness to delight;
Tis sweet to gaze upon the welkin bright,
As ends the uproar of a thunder-storm :
But sweeter far to me, would be a sight
Of Clara, whose dove-eyes and angel-form,
First made my death-cold heart with love's pure raptures
XXIX. [warm.
How peaceful, and how happy had I been.
If, ere these eyes had oped on scenes of woe,
I had been buried in the church-yard green.
Where the dark yew and cypress love to grow !
Nor had my Love been doomed to forego
Her father's house, and father's smiles for me;
But I will weep not that I sorrow know ;
Nor let my gentle Clara weep, for He
Who 611s both heaven and earth will now thy guardian
XXX. [be.
Mild as the, mildest breath of summer-air,
That softly walks o'er sweetly-scented flowers ;
And fairer art thou than the morning fair.
Before the sun above the blue hills towers :
And lovelier than the shadowy night that lowers
T'pon a vernal vale of lakes and streams,
Are those long ringlets that thy head embowers ;
And thy eyes' radiance is like Luna's beams,
WTien she through vernal clouds on. shadowy midnight
gleams.
summer's night lay. 15
XXXI.
Now I will tell thee, Fair, a dream ; as true
As that there is a sun to shine in heaven ;
As that the moon is lovely to the view,
And sparkling stars light up the hour of even ;
As that the lightning's flash has sometimes riven
Huge trees, (the mountain-oak and mountain-ash ;)
As tliat the seas are billowy and uneven,
When swelling high the sullen skies they lash.
And foaming roll along a shore of rocks to dash.
XXXII.
A dream as true as that the lakes are smooth,
And woods and groves are silent and serene,
AVhen Zephyr sleeps around the flowery booth,
Or makes her pillow on the level green ;
As true, as that the wintry winds have been ;
As true, as that those winds again will blow.
When not a flower or green-leaf will be seen.
Save where the olive (ever-green) may grow ;
And that where floweret bloomed, will lie the algid snow.
XXXIII.
I dreamed (but a few nights ago), that I
Stood all alone within a spacious park.
Where dark blue waters shewed the bluer sky.
And woods appeared majestically dark :
Above them towered the feathery-pinioned lark.
Towards large white clouds that slowly seemed to
'Neath such a sky a princess might embark [glide :
In light canoe upon the ocean tide.
And rowed along might on the peaceful waters glide,
XXXIV.
But soon these views were vanished from my eyes ;
The foliage was withered from the wood ;
And cold, and wild, and wintry looked the skies;
And dark and troubled was the long lake's flood ;
—
For the winds whistling in their .wildest mood
Curled the deep waters, and did dash them so,
Tliat every rising wave seemed as it would
The trembling beech of withered green o'erflow.
I fearful felt, but could not stir a limb to go.
16 summer's night lay.
XXXV.
I've sometimes seen the Derwent's waters dark ;
Almost as dark as that dark lake did seem,
When I have walked alone in Cliatsworth Park
When scowling clouds hioke day's refulgent beam ;
For every moorish mountain-spring and stream,
(Which gather the autunuial heavy rain,
As down the braky hills and dales they swim.
In search of nniddy s
amp in marshy plain,)
Roll all their torrents to, and Derwent's M'atera stain,
xxxvx.
The scenery was changed again, and lo !
A huge and mighty hill
appeared in view.
From top to bottom all
besprent with snow ;
And here and there a naked hawthorn grew ;
My feet were bare, and bare my head was too ;
(The shivering orphan ne'er looked more forlorn
When o'er him the fierce winds of winter blew :)
And much I feared my bare-feet would be torn
By sharp projecting stones, and snow-hid ragged thorn.
XXXVII.
A something irresistibly impelled
Me on, howe'er reluctantly I went.
Now higher and more high the whirlwind swelled,
And trees like willows were before it bent ;
Some were uprooted, and some others rent
Asunder : then a sullen calm ensued :
So sleeps the blast when all its force is
spent.
The scenery changed again ; for in a wood
Surroimded by huge rocks, still more forlorn I stood.
XXXVIII.
Then stood before me a dejected maid,
With eye all wildness and with cheek all pallid :
Dark melancholy did her low brow shade,
While she stood listening to the winds tiiat sallied,
As gust on gust above the high rocks rallied,
And through the dark wood murmured ;
then she
More fearful, and stood upon feet less vahd ;
[seemed
When like a maniac wild with fright she screamed,
And falling down expired.
— But something more I
dreamed.
summer's night lay. 17
XXXIX.
Then wood, and rocks, and maiden passed awajff ;
And tlien in agony I seemed to stand
Ueside a couch on which my Clara lay,
Incapable of raising her soft hand,
Or moving her sweet lips ; and as I scanned
Her death-hke aspect with a troubled eye,
She did the lashes of her eyes expand,
Burst into tears, and heaved a heavy sigh ;
And on her quivering lips a white foam seemed to lie.
XL.
An icy horror then chilled all my blood :
I felt a kind of feeling such as we
Feel when we see one drowning in deep flood.
Or plunged in steep-down gulph no more to be.
On whom depends our whole felicity
While in this desert wilderness we dwell :
I felt the oppressive waves of misery
Against my dizzy soul remorseless swell.
And overwhelm my heart with half the woes of hell.
XLI.
I have stood near the couch of one when dying,
Whose large black eyes threw their last glance on me :
And I have 'woke at midnight with the crying
Of her Avho bare me, as if that might be
The hour she'd launch into eternity :
And I have felt a timid sister fall
Upon me in hysteric agony :
But never did those sudden frights appal
Me like that aweful dream that held me long in thrall.
XLII.
I called aloud, but no one answered me :
It seemed as if there was no person thei'e.
I gazed on her, but nought of life could see.
Save in her eye that shone through gushing tear.
For she lay still as if stretched on her bier.
Perhaps some spirit from the shades below,
(Whose wide-extended realms are rueful, drear,)
Might picture to my eye those scenes of woe,
That melancholy might upon my spirits grow.
IS summer's night lay.
XLIII.
No more.—Perhaps the day may soon return,
A^ hcii this sad heart sliall heave no secret sigh ;
lint with new ardours and fresh raptures hurn,
Lit by the bright beams of my Clajja's eye.
Till tiiat
day come, my uiomeuts will go by
As heavily as rolls the stream of time,
'l"o one ill darksome dungeon doomed to lie,
Keading his l;fte in I'ancy's Paiilominie,
"Whether the dark, night scowls, or Phoebus reigns
XLIV. [sublime.
I low gayly over yon protracted wood,
AViicre Philomela sings on roscid spray,
(And her notes mellowed o'er adjacent flood,
Are sweetest harmony to listening fay,)
Towers fair F^luxbe up hor cloudless way !
The beams which she on sleeping JVature sheds,
Though borrowed from the flaming orb of day.
Suck not the dew-drops from the flower-beds,
Xor scorch the humid soil where lilies lift their heads.
XLV.
Oft when the sun has brightened ocean's breast,
Far other climes than Albion to illume.
Sweet Moon, thin horned, I've seen thee in the west
Hang o'er the hills in melancholy gloom;
Eut now full-orbed, to smile on summer-bloom,—
To light the lonely wanderer on his way,
—
To cheer the youth who weeps at maidens' tomb,
Shunning the gaudy glare of public day,
Tliou shed'st from yonder skies thy solitary ray.
XLVI.
"When -worn-out winds are pillowed on the lakes.
And on his eoucli the peasant soundly sleeps,
—
 hen not a leaf tlaough slumbering forest shakes,
Nor tardy cloud along th' horizon creeps,
—
When holy saint his midnight vigil keeps,
"Wlule round him the dim taper feebly gleams.
Oft will I
linger on the woody steeps,
—
Or hst the melody of cooling streams,
Sparkling, fair Queen of Night, with thy bright silver
beams.
summer's night lay. 19
XLVII.
But now, sad nymph, that lov'st the yew-trees* shades.
And walk'st at night where church-yard silence reigns;
O, come and lead me down thy silent glades.
While Cynthia on ethereal azure gains,
And sheds her yellow beams on hills and plains :
Lead me where thou thyself delight'st to go,
—
To shadowy groves, dark woods, and solemn fanes.
Filling each grove and wood with song of woe ;
Or 'mongst the silent dead bid strains elegiac flow.
XLVIII.
Ere Night had drawn her curtain 'cross the skies,
While yet the sun above th' horizon shone,
My heart was glad, and cheerful were my eyes.
Although I sat upon yon hill* alone:
But now my soul is melancholy grown :
And why ? Is it that darkness fills the air ?
O no ; I'm lighted by the lovely moon ;
Which I would rather see on silver car.
Than he, who ere his orb is seen, drowns brightest star.
XLIX.
Lead me, sweet Melancholy, to that spot, f
Where I have lingered many a lonely hour.
And hfe's long retinue of cares forgot.
Beading Poetic lay in lonely bower ;
For now no sky-lark carols in her tour ;
Silent each songster of the valley keeps ;
Upon each blade of grass, each shrub and flower.
The lower sky its humid moisture weeps ;
And upon the cool earth the yellow moonlight sleeps.
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Hady HiU. t Sutton Park
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The summer's night lay, a poem, in three cantos. canto i

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  • 9. THE Summers's Night Lay^ A POEM ; ^w CJrce Cantos* AUTHOR OF " CHESTERFIELD CHURCH." CANTO I. " Low walks the sun, and broadens by degrees, Just o'er the verge of day. The shifting clouds Assembled gay, a richly gorgeous train, In all their pomp attend his setting throne." Thompson's Summer. CHESTERFIELD : PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY T. WOODHEAD. 1823.
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  • 11. IT i8 a vitiated taste wbicli can only relish works of imagination. The best, the most accredited of such works, will only hold a secondary rank in the estimation of a mind, that has felt the advantage of sober thought and calm investigation. But though productions of an imaginative character, are not, in point of worth and importance the first, they are not therefore to be despised : if they do not form the substantial meal, they may claim the merit of the elegant desert ; if tliey do not con- stitute a serious pursuit of life, they may certainly be numbered among its ornaments and pleasures. The genius for poetry, like genius ofall other kinds, is mostly elicited in the first instances, in small and imperfect efi'orts.— But small and imperfect as those beginuiugs of intellectual enterprize may be, ou the patronage and success which they obtain, often depends the fate of future years. The plaut, that beneath wintry winds and inclement skies, fades, and droops, and dies, would have reached its maturity, would have displayed all its beauties, would have shed all its fragrance, in a milder atmosphere, and under a summer's sun. It is the mark of a generous and noble soul, to foster rather than to crush, to countenance rather than to contenm, the early attempts of genius and enterprize. 853828
  • 12. IV PHEFACi:. • The pretensions of the following Poem are not iiigh. Whether it is of a kind adapted to tlie prevailiu!;- taste of the age, admits perhaps of a doubt. It is liowever such a Poem as fairly ex- hibits the Author's thoughts and feelings at the time ; and such as he Lopes will not be found destitute of interest to those who read it. It is saying but little of a literary performance ofany kind, to say, it will not offend. Yet inoffensiveness when associated with other qualities of merit, is no despicable recommendation. Happy would it be If some of the popular productions of the day, were free from all things that offend ; but if we acknow- ledge ourselves charmed by their beauties and dazzled by their splendours, we must on the other confess that we are disgtisted at their impurities, and shocked at their profaneness. With a measure of that excited feeling, that conflict of hope and fear, of which no one that writes a book can fully divest himself, the First Canto of the Summer's Night Lay, is ventured on the ocean of public opinion. If it lives —well ; if not, the Author has this consolation, cold as it is, that he is not the first, nor the last,— that thousands have been, and thousands will be, engulphed in that stormy and oblivious deep.
  • 13. ANALYSIS OF CANTO L THE character of a Poet, shewing the love he has for the scenery of Nature, whether beautiful, grand, or marvellous His love of Fame his most prevailing passion The Author adverted to A moderate love of Fame not inconsistent uith the character of a Prelate Persons manifesting no emulation, thought to have a predilection for wealth A short address to the genius displayed in that inimitably beautiful Poem, ' The MinstreV A village maid (Clara,) adverted to, and considered as supplying the want of a Patron Allusion to a lark Evening described, in u-hich is a view of the sun; the sun ivhen setting, the most grand of scenes ; the pleasure felt on the occasion, compared ivith other pleasures, and preferred to them ; and the set-sun when the ap- pearance of the skies are acknowledged as exceeding all description Supposition that beyond our horizon, some Poet may be viewing with wonder, the setting of the sun, the grandeur of the heavens, Ifc Chesterfield church bells adverted to Night Descrip- tion of the scenery, 3fc Night friendly to persons cultivating mutual regards Their happiness in solitude, !fc The Author adverts to similar happiness, and laments its departure The impression made on his mind by the going away of Clara The pleasure of seeing her, compared with, and preferred to other plea- sures Supposition that it might have been better with the Author had he died in infancy, Sfc The person of Clara described A dream Asserted to be true The scene of it first in a park, where is an allusion to the Derwent, then on a snowy moun- tain, then in a wood surrounded with rocks, where a maid expires with fright, and lastly, in a bed-chamber, where Clara lies near death The horror felt on the occasion Supposition that it might be occasioned by an unhappy spirit Clara Moon-rise Beautiful, ifc Address to Melancholy Continuation of the walk proposed.
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  • 15. THE SUMMER'S NIGHT LAY. Canto ^. THE time taken up in this canto, is from about seven in the evening, till near midnight The descriptive passages describe the scenery from Chesterfield to Sutton, by Hady. HOW wild and fanciful tlie Poet's soul ! How strangely roll his never-sated eyes ! From this low world to where far brighter roll. He teaches his unbounded soul to rise. Gliding athwart the vast and trackless skies : From highest heaven down to deepest hell, Like lightning's flash his vivid fancy flies ; Marks the dark den where furious demons dwell ; Hears the deep hollow groan, and loud terrific yell. II. But loves he not the scenes on earth beheld ? The verdant woods — the flowery-dappled vales— The rising hills — the sable clouds propelled Upon the bosom of ambrosial gales — The limpid streams that murmur down the dales— All that e'er flourished in the fruitful spring — And every bird that in the welkin sails— With heaven's red fires that shoot on rapid wing — And the wild waiter's storm to his soul pleasures bring. B
  • 16. 8 summer's night lay. III. Ave there no sounds on earth can cliarni liis ears ? He loves the Usp of leaves when zephyrs hlow— The niilk-niaid's song — the hum of village farm— The voiee of heavy waters when they How J)own ragged roeks to foaming deeps below — The erash of bellowing thur,der — the loud roar Of oeean-water.s, that tunmltuous throw 'J'heir mountain billows on the rock-!)ound shore— And the fierce howl of winds that sweep the forests o'er. IV. Soon as Aurora drives the shades of night, And streaks with dawning day the eastern skies, Behold him climbing up some lonely height, O'er distant hills to view bright PhfFJjus rise : The vapory clouds are dipped in golden dyes ; And now up rolls his radiant car along ; O'er dewy hills his brightning glory flies, Cheering where'er it falls; the tuneful throng "Waibiing, fill all the air with sw eet harmonious song. V. Where hums aloud the never-idle bee, "When Phoebus sheds his hot meridian ray, Beneath the cooling shade of some huge tree. On mossy mound or cock of new-made hay, He loves his languid listless liudis to lay. Gazing around the bine and cloudless sky ; Or listening to the linnet's mournful lay, That sits in some adjacent bush to sigh For her young stolen aw ay by impious cruelty. VI. Or in the deeper gloom of sylvan grove. Where meeting blanches hide the orb of day, He pores upon some favourite song of love ; Or in some waking dream is wrapt away ; Or listens to the blackbird's mellow lay : And now he walks — and now stands statue-still, G;>zing upon the amorous birds in play : Now all at once he turns to yonder rill, That nuirmurs as it laves the foot of towering hill.
  • 17. summer's night lay. 9 VII. AVhon the proud Day is waning to a close. And J*li(iebus sinks upon the western main ; Hunnning his wayward musings as lie g(»es, lie strides in haste across the darkning plain, Perhaps the summit of some lull to gain, AVhere he nuiy walk in loneliness to list The wakeful songster chant his evening strain ; And view the vallies dimmed witii rising mist ; And ^'ight's all-sileut gloom brood darkling in the east. VIII. Midnight when ghosts their gloomy deeds transact, Can ne'er the ardours of his soul appal : lie loves the bellowing of diead cataract. And murnuir sweet of gentle water-fall : The sound and sight of things both great and small Are ever charming to his ears and eyes : And whether dieaiy darkness covers all, Or glory streams along cerulian skies, He's ever 'wake to catch new fancies as they rise. IX. Dreams he not of the path which leads to fame ? Takes he no step which he imagines may Through future years perpetuat-e his name ? For this he pores upon the classic la)* ; For this he's ever watchful night and day To mark each varying scene as hours go round. Illumined with the sun or Cynthia's ray ; For this he treads the valley — climbs the mound— And ever is alive to each melodious sound. X. May he who now attempts his voice to raise, E'er by his song acquire a honest fame ?— Who shuns the soul-enchanting sound of prai.'e ?— The Prelate who ne'er felt ignoble flame— Who utters oft Jehovah's aweful name— Who ne'er of hateful pride was overcome— Nor e'er did deed to cause him grief and shame— Feels a fond passion rule his inmost home. In all his private walks and labours in the dome.
  • 18. 10 SUMMER S NIGHT LAY. XT. love of fame ! the rigkl and severe May stigmatize thee witli the name of pride ; As if the best of passions given us here, "Was what they might most harmlessly deride : But these to Christians were not much allied, Could we discern the motive of their actions : Perhaps if by the true criterion tried. They would be found to rivet their allections To gold, for which they have a tliousand predilections. XII. Will he who now attempts his voice to raise, Acquire a " honest fame"? can it e'er be That the rough numbers of his artless lays Should raise his name from dark obscurity ? Hail, sweetest Minstrel *'of the north couutrie"! As on I Avander o'er each lonely height. Teach me to imitate thy minstrelsey, (Thy flowing verse inspires a pure delight,) ^^'hile 1 song-smitten sing of Summer's lovely night. XIII. 1 sing to court the favour of no kings, Nor city lady of the higher class ; Nor sweep my fingers o'er the sounding strings Contemporary Poets to surpass : I sing to please a lovely village lass, Of lily bosom, brightly-beaming eye. With lips as humid as the dewy grass. But red as crimson cloud in evening sky. And soul as soft and gentle as an angel's sigh. XIV. So sings the sky-lark early bred in spring, His bosom glowing with the warmth of love : Up yonder sky he mounts on volant wing. The music of his little bill to prove ; And far above church-spire or mountain-grove, Warbles the welkins airy fields among : Of all in earth below or heaven above. He seeks to please no object with his song, Save his new-chosen mate, fond as himself and young.
  • 19. summer's NIGJrr LAY. 11 XV. But hail, sweet Muse ! I must begin my Lay, "Which may perhaps continue until nioin. Forth goes the lover with his mistress gay, Through verdant meads and fields of waving corn, Breathing perfumes on balmy zephyrs borne : 'Mid echoing shouts the cricket-ball is driven O'er ground by fiequent footsteps smoothly worn ; The clang of quoit rings in the breeze of even ; And the red orb of day ghdes down the western heaven. XVI. O'er yonder clouds that ride on steady gale, "Whose higher borders flame empyreal bright, How sweetly shines the sun adown the vale, AVhich grows more golden with his oblique li^ht ! The long-winged swallow in her airy flight Sports in the sunny beams around ; and lo ! Above embattled clouds a lofty height, With crimson hues the lesser vapours glow: How grand is heaven above ! how lovel}' earth below ! XVII. There nothing is beneath heaven's canopy So glorious as the broad refulgent sun. Before he sinks upon th' Atlantic sea. And Albion leaves besprent with shadow dun : MiUions of burning rays before him run ; And millions soar up heaven's boundless height ; As many have on seas their dance begun ; And some drive back the chariot of the night : There's nothing so subhme —so God-like and so bright. XVIII. "Would I the pleasures of this hour forego To fumble with the miser in his chest ? The love of wealth is an eternal foe To every generous feeling of the breast. To sit with Epicure at splendid feast, AVhere heady, but delicious bowk are quaffed ? I would not be the Epicurean's guest ! He shuns the hill where evening zephyrs waft ; Nor drinks at woodland spring the cool refreshing draught.
  • 20. 12 summer's night lay, XIX. To mingle in the gay and giddy ring. That moves in dance to varl)ling symphony ? From such dehght, no real raptures spring, But oft the cutting pangs of misery : Far more than these 1 love tranijuillity ; The present is a calm and tranquil time ; The iields are drest in evening gaiety ; The clear springs bubble with melodious chime ; And the declining sun sits on his throne sublime. XX. Now o'er the distant hills with weaker blaze. Lower and lower golden Pha^bus sinks : Now we see not the radiance of his rays. Save what yon long and wafery vapour drinks : Yet lovelier scene was ne'er beheld methinks, Than the sun setting as he sets to-night ; And though I would, (my wakeful iancy shrinks.) I cannot frame my humble rhymes aright. To paint the mingling hues of blue and red and white, XXI. Beyond where heaven and earth appear to meet, From the horizon far the sun may gleam Upon some village lovely, lonely, sweet : And there some Poet near his favourite stream, Or on some hill may meet the goUlen beam. And, feeling in his soul sweet raptures rise. May start a moment from his waking dream. And roll from north to south his sparkling eyes, VieMUig the golden glories of th' aerial skies. XXII. Hark ! from the steeple of yon towering dome. Comes the loud music of the tuneful bells ; O'er yonder hills the flying changes roam, And Echo answers from (he mai-shy dells : The mellowing peal upon the soft wind swells. As change ou change the merry bells ring round : But now thoy settle; and where Silence dwells, I wend my lonely way : hushed is each sound : Save for my own rude pipe, 'twas silence all-profound.
  • 21. summer's night lay. is XXIII. The sable Night now drives her rapid car, And gloomy darkness rushes through the skies ; And here and there a brightly-sparkling star In that high canopy appears to rise : The humid mist along the valley lies ^ In cloudy volumes; and on yonder hill O'er sleeping woods the iiti'ul zephyr sighs ; Down weedy shallow glides the silent rill : How pensive is all round me! O how calm! howstilll XXIV. The weary mower now has left the field— The waggon goes no more for load of hay — The rustic-band who fork and rake did wield, Have long since plodded up the grass-grown way— Fled oer yon hills is the last beam of day— Hushed are the warblings of the w oodland lark— And hushed is every other vocal lay, Save her's that loves to w^arble in the dark, [haik. Whom none but wakeful sprites, and wandering lovers XXV. This hour is dear to gentle lovers true ; The hour they meet to give and take love's vow : And ne'er two happier doves together flew. Than are such lovers, when near rills that flow, Kissing the banks where hmber osiers grow — Or in ambrosial bower, near bubbling spring. They feel their hearts with heavenly raptures glow : Their golden moments glide on angel-wing. Each growing sweeter like succeeding days in spring. XXVI. heavens ! how sad and lonely do I feel ! — 1 once the thrilHngs of such bliss did prove : 'Twas when sweet Clara came with nimble heel, To meet me in the solitary grove ; Leaned on my breast, and heard my tale of love ; Lavished on me the radiance of her eyes ; Spoke words as sweet as angel-songs above ; But now ! (flow out my tears and heave my sighs !) My gentle Clara's fled, and with her all those joys.
  • 22. 14 summer's night lay. XXVIT. But when she left me, (what a pain was that ! I never wish to feel it o'er again ; Nor ever will it be by me forgot : ^li, me ! I thought it would have cleft in twain My very soul ! so piercing was the pain :) She left what ne'er will leave me till I die, Though roll between us the wide-foaming main. Her weeping Image ; now it clings me nigh, Shewing its pallid cheek, and downcast streaming eye, XXVIII. Tis sweet to see the dawn of morning, after The horrid darkness of a moonless night : ^ris pleasant too, to hear the sound of laughter As wakes the soul from sadness to delight; Tis sweet to gaze upon the welkin bright, As ends the uproar of a thunder-storm : But sweeter far to me, would be a sight Of Clara, whose dove-eyes and angel-form, First made my death-cold heart with love's pure raptures XXIX. [warm. How peaceful, and how happy had I been. If, ere these eyes had oped on scenes of woe, I had been buried in the church-yard green. Where the dark yew and cypress love to grow ! Nor had my Love been doomed to forego Her father's house, and father's smiles for me; But I will weep not that I sorrow know ; Nor let my gentle Clara weep, for He Who 611s both heaven and earth will now thy guardian XXX. [be. Mild as the, mildest breath of summer-air, That softly walks o'er sweetly-scented flowers ; And fairer art thou than the morning fair. Before the sun above the blue hills towers : And lovelier than the shadowy night that lowers T'pon a vernal vale of lakes and streams, Are those long ringlets that thy head embowers ; And thy eyes' radiance is like Luna's beams, WTien she through vernal clouds on. shadowy midnight gleams.
  • 23. summer's night lay. 15 XXXI. Now I will tell thee, Fair, a dream ; as true As that there is a sun to shine in heaven ; As that the moon is lovely to the view, And sparkling stars light up the hour of even ; As that the lightning's flash has sometimes riven Huge trees, (the mountain-oak and mountain-ash ;) As tliat the seas are billowy and uneven, When swelling high the sullen skies they lash. And foaming roll along a shore of rocks to dash. XXXII. A dream as true as that the lakes are smooth, And woods and groves are silent and serene, AVhen Zephyr sleeps around the flowery booth, Or makes her pillow on the level green ; As true, as that the wintry winds have been ; As true, as that those winds again will blow. When not a flower or green-leaf will be seen. Save where the olive (ever-green) may grow ; And that where floweret bloomed, will lie the algid snow. XXXIII. I dreamed (but a few nights ago), that I Stood all alone within a spacious park. Where dark blue waters shewed the bluer sky. And woods appeared majestically dark : Above them towered the feathery-pinioned lark. Towards large white clouds that slowly seemed to 'Neath such a sky a princess might embark [glide : In light canoe upon the ocean tide. And rowed along might on the peaceful waters glide, XXXIV. But soon these views were vanished from my eyes ; The foliage was withered from the wood ; And cold, and wild, and wintry looked the skies; And dark and troubled was the long lake's flood ; — For the winds whistling in their .wildest mood Curled the deep waters, and did dash them so, Tliat every rising wave seemed as it would The trembling beech of withered green o'erflow. I fearful felt, but could not stir a limb to go.
  • 24. 16 summer's night lay. XXXV. I've sometimes seen the Derwent's waters dark ; Almost as dark as that dark lake did seem, When I have walked alone in Cliatsworth Park When scowling clouds hioke day's refulgent beam ; For every moorish mountain-spring and stream, (Which gather the autunuial heavy rain, As down the braky hills and dales they swim. In search of nniddy s amp in marshy plain,) Roll all their torrents to, and Derwent's M'atera stain, xxxvx. The scenery was changed again, and lo ! A huge and mighty hill appeared in view. From top to bottom all besprent with snow ; And here and there a naked hawthorn grew ; My feet were bare, and bare my head was too ; (The shivering orphan ne'er looked more forlorn When o'er him the fierce winds of winter blew :) And much I feared my bare-feet would be torn By sharp projecting stones, and snow-hid ragged thorn. XXXVII. A something irresistibly impelled Me on, howe'er reluctantly I went. Now higher and more high the whirlwind swelled, And trees like willows were before it bent ; Some were uprooted, and some others rent Asunder : then a sullen calm ensued : So sleeps the blast when all its force is spent. The scenery changed again ; for in a wood Surroimded by huge rocks, still more forlorn I stood. XXXVIII. Then stood before me a dejected maid, With eye all wildness and with cheek all pallid : Dark melancholy did her low brow shade, While she stood listening to the winds tiiat sallied, As gust on gust above the high rocks rallied, And through the dark wood murmured ; then she More fearful, and stood upon feet less vahd ; [seemed When like a maniac wild with fright she screamed, And falling down expired. — But something more I dreamed.
  • 25. summer's night lay. 17 XXXIX. Then wood, and rocks, and maiden passed awajff ; And tlien in agony I seemed to stand Ueside a couch on which my Clara lay, Incapable of raising her soft hand, Or moving her sweet lips ; and as I scanned Her death-hke aspect with a troubled eye, She did the lashes of her eyes expand, Burst into tears, and heaved a heavy sigh ; And on her quivering lips a white foam seemed to lie. XL. An icy horror then chilled all my blood : I felt a kind of feeling such as we Feel when we see one drowning in deep flood. Or plunged in steep-down gulph no more to be. On whom depends our whole felicity While in this desert wilderness we dwell : I felt the oppressive waves of misery Against my dizzy soul remorseless swell. And overwhelm my heart with half the woes of hell. XLI. I have stood near the couch of one when dying, Whose large black eyes threw their last glance on me : And I have 'woke at midnight with the crying Of her Avho bare me, as if that might be The hour she'd launch into eternity : And I have felt a timid sister fall Upon me in hysteric agony : But never did those sudden frights appal Me like that aweful dream that held me long in thrall. XLII. I called aloud, but no one answered me : It seemed as if there was no person thei'e. I gazed on her, but nought of life could see. Save in her eye that shone through gushing tear. For she lay still as if stretched on her bier. Perhaps some spirit from the shades below, (Whose wide-extended realms are rueful, drear,) Might picture to my eye those scenes of woe, That melancholy might upon my spirits grow.
  • 26. IS summer's night lay. XLIII. No more.—Perhaps the day may soon return, A^ hcii this sad heart sliall heave no secret sigh ; lint with new ardours and fresh raptures hurn, Lit by the bright beams of my Clajja's eye. Till tiiat day come, my uiomeuts will go by As heavily as rolls the stream of time, 'l"o one ill darksome dungeon doomed to lie, Keading his l;fte in I'ancy's Paiilominie, "Whether the dark, night scowls, or Phoebus reigns XLIV. [sublime. I low gayly over yon protracted wood, AViicre Philomela sings on roscid spray, (And her notes mellowed o'er adjacent flood, Are sweetest harmony to listening fay,) Towers fair F^luxbe up hor cloudless way ! The beams which she on sleeping JVature sheds, Though borrowed from the flaming orb of day. Suck not the dew-drops from the flower-beds, Xor scorch the humid soil where lilies lift their heads. XLV. Oft when the sun has brightened ocean's breast, Far other climes than Albion to illume. Sweet Moon, thin horned, I've seen thee in the west Hang o'er the hills in melancholy gloom; Eut now full-orbed, to smile on summer-bloom,— To light the lonely wanderer on his way, — To cheer the youth who weeps at maidens' tomb, Shunning the gaudy glare of public day, Tliou shed'st from yonder skies thy solitary ray. XLVI. "When -worn-out winds are pillowed on the lakes. And on his eoucli the peasant soundly sleeps, — hen not a leaf tlaough slumbering forest shakes, Nor tardy cloud along th' horizon creeps, — When holy saint his midnight vigil keeps, "Wlule round him the dim taper feebly gleams. Oft will I linger on the woody steeps, — Or hst the melody of cooling streams, Sparkling, fair Queen of Night, with thy bright silver beams.
  • 27. summer's night lay. 19 XLVII. But now, sad nymph, that lov'st the yew-trees* shades. And walk'st at night where church-yard silence reigns; O, come and lead me down thy silent glades. While Cynthia on ethereal azure gains, And sheds her yellow beams on hills and plains : Lead me where thou thyself delight'st to go, — To shadowy groves, dark woods, and solemn fanes. Filling each grove and wood with song of woe ; Or 'mongst the silent dead bid strains elegiac flow. XLVIII. Ere Night had drawn her curtain 'cross the skies, While yet the sun above th' horizon shone, My heart was glad, and cheerful were my eyes. Although I sat upon yon hill* alone: But now my soul is melancholy grown : And why ? Is it that darkness fills the air ? O no ; I'm lighted by the lovely moon ; Which I would rather see on silver car. Than he, who ere his orb is seen, drowns brightest star. XLIX. Lead me, sweet Melancholy, to that spot, f Where I have lingered many a lonely hour. And hfe's long retinue of cares forgot. Beading Poetic lay in lonely bower ; For now no sky-lark carols in her tour ; Silent each songster of the valley keeps ; Upon each blade of grass, each shrub and flower. The lower sky its humid moisture weeps ; And upon the cool earth the yellow moonlight sleeps. * Hady HiU. t Sutton Park END TO CANTO FIRST.
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