An issue like this was in my intentions, but alas! -- --'mid the wreck of is and was, Things incomplete and purposes betrayed Make sadder transits o'er thought's optic glass Than noblest objects utterly decayed.' Bydal Mount, June 24.

1843.
St.John Baptist Day.
Of the 'Church' in the 'Excursion' (Book v.) we find this additional morsel in a letter to Lady Frederick Bentinck (_Memoirs_, i.

156): 'The Church is a very ancient structure; some persons now propose to ceil it, a project which, as a matter of taste and feeling, I utterly disapprove.

At present, it is open to the rafters, and is accordingly spacious, and has a venerable appearance, favourable, when one first enters, to devotional impressions.' 514.

_The Aristocracy of Nature_.
-- --'much did he see of men.' ['Excursion,' Book i.1.