WHERE LONG AND DEEPLY HATH BEEN FIXED. Comp. 1842. IX. Pub. 1845. As faith thus sanctified the warrior's crest While from the Papal Unity there came, By works of Art, that shed on the outward frame Pinions of high and higher sweep, and make 41 WHERE long and deeply hath been fixed the root In a letter to Professor Henry Reed, Philadelphia, Sept. 4, 1842, Wordsworth writes: "To the second part of the Series," the Ecclesiastical Sonnets, "I have also added two, in order to do more justice to the Papal Church for the services which she did actually render to Christianity and humanity in the Middle Ages."-ED. Witness the Church that oft-times, with effect Lamenting, do not hopelessly repine When such good work is doomed to be undone, XI. TRANSUBSTANTIATION. ENOUGH! for see, with dim association To a soft breeze, in lowly adoration. This Valdo brooks1 not.* On the banks of Rhone He taught, till persecution chased him thence, To adore the Invisible, and Him alone. * Peter Waldo (or Valdo), a rich merchant of Lyons (1160 or 1170), becoming religious, dedicated himself to poverty and almsgiving. Disciples gathered round him; and they were called the poor men of Lyons-a modest, frugal, and industrious order. They were reformers before the Reformation. Peter Waldo exposed the corruption of the clergy, had the four gospels translated for the people, and maintained the rights of the laity to read them to the masses. He was condemned by the Lateran Council in 1179.-ED. PRAISED BE THE RIVERS. Nor are1 his Followers loth to seek defence, Mid woods and wilds, on Nature's craggy throne, 43 XII. THE VAUDOIS. Pub. 1835. BUT whence came they who for the Saviour Lord In Gallic ears the unadulterate Word, Their fugitive Progenitors explored Subalpine vales, in quest of safe retreats Where that pure Church survives, though summer heats Open a passage to the Romish sword, Far as it dares to follow. Herbs self-sown, And fruitage gathered from the chesnut wood, XIII. Pub. 1835. PRAISED be the Rivers, from their mountain springs "And in our caverns smooth thy ruffled wings!" 1 1837. Nor were 1822. Nor be unthanked their final lingerings- XIV. WALDENSES.* THOSE had given earliest notice, as the lark 1 1837. 2 1837. 3 1845. their tardiest lingerings 'Mid reedy fens wide-spread and marshes drear, Yet were 1835. 1835. * The followers of Peter Waldo became ultimately a separate community, and multiplied in the valleys of Dauphine and Piedmont. They suffered persecutions in 1332, 1400, and 1478, but these persecutions only drove them into fresh districts in Europe. Francis I. of France ordered them to be extirpated from Piedmont in 1541, and many were massacred. In 1560 the Duke of Savoy renewed the persecution at the instance of the Papal See. Charles Emmanuel II., in 1655, continued it.-ED. ARCHBISHOP CHICHELY TO HENRY V. 45 Or1 rather rose the day to antedate, By striking out a solitary spark, When all the world with midnight gloom was dark.— In vain endeavours to exterminate, Whom Obloquy pursues with hideous bark :* But they desist not; and the sacred fire,5 XV. ARCHBISHOP CHICHELY TO HENRY V. "WHAT beast in wilderness or cultured field "The lively beauty of the leopard shows? At length come those Waldensian bands, whom Hate 1843. The list of foul names bestowed upon those poor creatures is long and curious;—and, as is, alas, too natural, most of the opprobrious appellations are drawn from circumstances into which they were forced by their persecutors, who even consolidated their miseries into one reproachful term, calling them Patarenians, or Paturins, from pati, to suffer. Dwellers with wolves, she names them, for the pine And green oak are their covert; as the gloom Of night oft foils their enemy's design, She calls them Riders on the flying broom; Sorcerers, whose frame and aspect have become One and the same through practices malign.-W. W. 1822. |