She daunts, forth-thundering from her spiritual tower, Justice and Peace through Her uphold their claims; Of good, o'er manners arts and arms, diffused: Yes, to thy domination, Roman See, III. CISTERTIAN MONASTERY.* "HERE Man more purely lives, less oft doth fall, And, to like shelter, from the world have fled Doubtless shall cheat full oft the heart's desires; 2 * The Cistercian order was named after the monastery of Citéaux or Cistercium, near Dijon, founded in 1098 by the Benedictine abbot, Robert of Molême.-ED. "Bonum est nos hic esse, quia homo vivit purius, cadit rarius, surgit velocius, incedit cautius, quiescit securius, moritur felicius, purgatur citius, præmiatur copiosius.”—Bernard. "This sentence," says Dr Whitaker, “is usually inscribed in some conspicuous part of the Cistertian houses."W. W., 1822. DEPLORABLE HIS LOT WHO TILLS THE GROUND. Yet, while the rugged Age on pliant knee A gentler life spreads round the holy spires; 37 IV.* Pub. 1835. DEPLORABLE his lot who tills the ground, To each new Master, like a steer or hound, * The following note, referring to Sonnets 4, 12, and 13, appears in the volume of 1835-entitled Yarrow Revisited, and other Poems-immediately after the poem St Bees [The three following Sonnets are an intended addition to the "Ecclesiastical Sketches," the first to stand second; and the two that succeed, seventh and eighth, in the second part of the series. They are placed here as having some connection with the foregoing poem.]-ED. V. MONKS AND SCHOOLMEN. RECORD We too, with just and faithful pen, VI. OTHER BENEFITS. AND, not in vain embodied to the sight, * Cenobites (Kowbßio), monks who live in common, as distinguished from hermits or anchorites, who live alone.-ED. + "Counts, kings, bishops," says F. D. Maurice, "in the fulness of their wealth and barbaric splendour, may be bowing before a monk, who writes them letters from a cell in which he is living upon vegetables and water."-Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy, Vol. I., Mediæval Philosophy, chap. iv., p. 534.-ED. E.g., Albertus Magnus (1193-1280); Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274) ; Duns Scotus (1275-1308); Roger Bacon (1214-1294).—ED. OTHER BENEFITS. * Of feudal sway her own appropriate seat; For prayer in stillness, or the chanted rite; Of offices dispensing heavenly grace! VII. CONTINUED. AND what melodious sounds at times prevail! Of hardihood with wreaths that shall not fail?— 39 * St George's Chapel, Windsor, begun by Henry III. and finished by Edward III., rebuilt by Henry VII., and enlarged by Cardinal Wolsey.ED. + Edward the Third (1336-1360). See The Wonderful Deeds of Edward the Third, by Robert of Avesbury; and Longman's History of Edward the Third.-ED. I see a matchless blazonry unfurled VIII. CRUSADERS. FURL we the sails, and pass with tardy oars When she would tell how Brave, and Good, and Wise,3 1 1845. Nor can Imagination quit the shores Of these bright scenes without a farewell glance 1822. Given to the dream-like Issues-that Romance 1837. |