yon, whose Church-like frame
    Gives to the savage Pass its name. 
    Aspiring Road! that lov’st to hide
    Thy daring in a vapoury bourn,
    Not seldom may the hour return
    When thou shalt be my Guide: 
    And I (as often we find cause,
    When life is at a weary pause,
    And we have panted up the hill
    Of duty with reluctant will)
    Be thankful, even though tired and faint,
    For the rich bounties of Constraint;
    Whence oft invigorating transports flow
    That Choice lacked courage to bestow!

    IV.

    My Soul was grateful for delight
    That wore a threatening brow;
    A veil is lifted—­can she slight
    The scene that opens now? 
    Though habitation none appear,
    The greenness tells, man must be there;
    The shelter—­that the perspective
    Is of the clime in which we live;
    Where Toil pursues his daily round;
    Where Pity sheds sweet tears, and Love,
    In woodbine bower or birchen grove,
    Inflicts his tender wound. 
    —­Who comes not hither ne’er shall know
    How beautiful the world below;
    Nor can he guess how lightly leaps
    The brook adown the rocky steeps. 
    Farewell, thou desolate Domain! 
    Hope, pointing to the cultured Plain,
    Carols like a shepherd boy;
    And who is she?—­Can that be Joy! 
    Who, with a sun-beam for her guide,
    Smoothly skims the meadows wide;
    While Faith, from yonder opening cloud,
    To hill and vale proclaims aloud,
    ’Whate’er the weak may dread, the wicked dare,
    Thy lot, O man, is good, thy portion fair!’

The Publishers, with permission of the Author, have added the following

ITINERARY OF THE LAKES, FOR THE USE OF TOURISTS.

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STAGES.  MILES.

Lancaster to Kendal, by Kirkby Lonsdale 30
Lancaster to Kendal, by Burton 22
Lancaster to Kendal, by Milnthorpe 21
Lancaster to Ulverston, over Sands 21
Lancaster to Ulverston, by Levens Bridge 35-1/2
Ulverston to Hawkshead, by Coniston Water Head 19
Ulverston to Bowness, by Newby Bridge 17
Hawkshead to Ambleside 5
Hawkshead to Bowness 6
Kendal to Ambleside 14
Kendal to Ambleside, by Bowness 15
From and back to Ambleside round the two Langdales 18
Ambleside to Ullswater 10
Ambleside to Keswick 16-1/4
Keswick to Borrowdale, and round the Lake 12