Among a thousand delightful feelings connected in my mind with the voice of the cuckoo, there is a personal one which is rather melancholy.

I was first convinced that age had rather dulled my hearing, by not being able to catch the sound at the same distance as the younger companions of my walks; and of this failure I had proof upon the occasion that suggested these verses.

I did not hear the sound till Mr.Robinson had twice or thrice directed my attention to it.
307._Camaldoli_.

[XV.] This famous sanctuary was the original establishment of Saint Romualdo, (or Rumwald, as our ancestors saxonised the name) in the 11th century, the ground (campo) being given by a Count Maldo.

The Camaldolensi, however, have spread wide as a branch of Benedictines, and may therefore be classed among the _gentlemen_ of the monastic orders.