Ее в величье. Лучшие дары                     Погибнут зря, коль обладатель их                     Презренье к ближним чувствует. И тот,                     Чей взгляд самим собой лишь поглощен, —                     Всех меньше, худший из живых существ.                     У мудреца он мог бы вызвать то                     Презрение, что мудростью самой                     Считается запретным. Будь мудрей!                     Лишь истинное знание ведет                     К любви, и тот лишь истинно велик,                     Кто в тихий час раздумий и тревог                     Себя терял и обретал себя                     В смиренье сердца…

LINES LEFT UPON A SEAT IN A YEW-TREE WHICH STANDS NEAR THE LAKE OF ESTHWAITE,

ON A DESOLATE PART OF THE SHORE, YET COMMANDING A BEAUTIFUL PROSPECT

             — Nay, Traveller! rest. This lonely yew-tree stands              Far from all human dwelling: what if here              No sparkling rivulet spread the verdant herb;              What if these barren boughs the bee not loves;              Yet, if the wind breathe soft, the curling waves,              That break against the shore, shall lull thy mind              By one soft impulse saved from vacancy.                                          Who he was              That piled these stones, and with the mossy sod              First covered o'er, and taught this aged tree,              Now wild, to bend its arms in circling shade,              I well remember. - He was one who own'd              No common soul. In youth, by genius nurs'd,              And big with lofty views, he to the world              Went forth, pure in his heart, against the taint              Of dissolute tongues, 'gainst jealousy, and hate,              And scorn, against all enemies prepared,              All but neglect: and so, his spirit damped              At once, with rash disdain he turned away,              And with the food of pride sustained his soul              In solitude. - Stranger! these gloomy boughs              Had charms for him; and here he loved to sit,              His only visitants a straggling sheep,              The stone-chat, or the glancing sand-piper;              And on these barren rocks, with juniper,              And heath, and thistle, thinly sprinkled o'er,              Fixing his downward eye, he many an hour              A morbid pleasure nourished, tracing here              An emblem of his own unfruitful life:              And lifting up his head, he then would gaze              On the more distant scene; how lovely 'tis              Thou seest, and he would gaze till it became              Far lovelier, and his heart could not sustain              The beauty still more beauteous. Nor, that time,              Would he forget those beings, to whose minds,              Warm from the labours of benevolence,              The world, and man himself, appeared a scene              Of kindred loveliness: then he would sigh              With mournful joy, to think that others felt              What he must never feel: and so, lost man!              On visionary views would fancy feed,              Till his eye streamed with tears. In this deep vale              He died, this seat his only monument.              If thou be one whose heart the holy forms              Of young imagination have kept pure,              Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know, that pride,              Howe'er disguised in its own majesty,              Is littleness; that he, who feels contempt              For any living thing, hath faculties              Which he has never used; that thought with him              Is in its infancy. The man, whose eye              Is ever on himself, doth look on one,              The least of nature's works, one who might move              The wise man to that scorn which wisdom holds              Unlawful, ever. O, be wiser thou!              Instructed that true knowledge leads to love,              True dignity abides with him alone              Who, in the silent hour of inward thought,              Can still suspect, and still revere himself,              In lowliness of heart.

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