Coningsby Author:Egerton Brydges Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INSCRIPTION III. To MILTON. Thy voice was on the wind ! I heard its sound i Circled by Cherubim , and Seraphim , Thou rod'st upou the driving cloud ; thy l... more »yre Trembled symplinnloua; while thy lips breathed out The song of rapture , as the blast by fits Died into murmurs. — O , it comes Do more ! 'Twas given but once this prelude of Heaven's joy 1 And Thou art seated then amid the Choir, That, in the trinmph of the Elements, Hymn the Creator's praUe ! And thia thy meed , For breaking bonds that mortal mould imposed; And, spite of human scorn and injury , .Raising thy voice while earth-bound to divine ! The meed is worth the 1 oil. — How full ofbliu, Above what notes terrestrial can describe Is this thy sphere , to lead the choral Winds ! O come but once again ! To bar that tone But once agaia : — aud I would gladly die ' chapter{Section 4J.HE spring advanced, and Ade- linde felt herself in a terrestrial paradise. As she had discovered a new vorld, and new faculties to describe it, the self satisfaction of pure and virtuous power made her feel A sober certainty of bliss , that is only the meed of the high-minded , who make a due use of the talents bestowed on them. To let the seeds of poetry sleep in the bosom; to chill and extinguish the energies which nature has implanted , is a crime that leads to misery, and madness. The smouldering fire consumes the vessel, that contains it. Adelinde's fancy at this time absolutely irradiated her beautiful form. It might be fortunate thatthere were none to witness it-, whose education and age qualified them to be her associates. — To behold her; and not to admire her; — not almost to worship her, was impossible ! A form, slight but round ; a fair and transparent complexion ; blue eyes ; auburn hair , were animated by a grac...« less