Unstedfast, by a blasted yew unstayed;
By cells whose image, trembling as he prays,
Awe-struck, the kneeling peasant scarce surveys;
Loose hanging rocks the Day's bless'd eye that hide,
And crosses reared to Death on every side,
Which with cold kiss Devotion planted near,
And bending water'd with the human tear;
That faded "silent" from her upward eye,
Unmoved with each rude form of Danger nigh, 1815.]


[Variant 53:

1836.

On as we move a softer prospect opes,
Calm huts, and lawns between, and sylvan slopes. 1815.]


[Variant 54:

1845.

While mists, suspended on the expiring gale,
Moveless o'er-hang the deep secluded vale, 1815.

Where mists, 1836.

Where mists suspended on the evening gale,
Spread roof-like o'er a deep secluded vale, C.