"'Twas summer, and we sailed to Greenwich _in_
A four-oared boat. The sun was shining, _and_
The scenes delightful; while we gazed _on_
The river winding, till we landed _at_
The Ship."]

[Footnote 3: Baxter's "Saints' Rest."]

ARGUMENT.

PART FIRST.

Introduction--Retrospect--General view--Cave--Bones--Brief sketch of
events since the deposit--Egypt--Druid--Roman--Saxon--Dane--Norman--
Hill--Campanula--Bleadon--Weston--Steep Holms--Solitary flower on Steep
Holms, the Peony--Flat Holms--Three unknown graves--Sea--Sea treacherous
in its tranquillity--Mr Elton's children--Packet-boat sunk.

PART SECOND.

First sound of the sea--First sight of the sea--Mother--Children--Uphill
parsonage--Father--Wells clock--Clock figure--Contrast of village
manners--Village maid--Rural nymph before the justices--State of
agricultural districts--Cause of crime--Workhouse girl--Manufactory
ranters--Prosing parson--Prig parson--Calvinistic commentators,
_etc._--Anti-moral preaching--True and false piety--Crimes passed over
by anti-moral preachers--Bible, without note or comment--English
Juggernaut--Village picture of Coombe--Village-school children, educated
by Mrs P. Scrope--Annual meeting on the lawn of 140 children--Old
nurse--Benevolence of English landlords--Poor widow and
daughter--Stourhead--Ken at Longleat--Marston house--Early travels in
Switzerland--Compton house--Clergyman's wife--Village clergyman.

PART THIRD.

A tale of a Cornish maid--Her prayer-book--Her mother--Widow and
son--Tales of sea life--Phantom-ship of the Cape.

PART FOURTH.

Solitary sea--Ship--Sea scenes of Southampton contrasted--Solitary
sand--Young Lady--Severn--Walton Castle--Picture of Bristol--
Congresbury--Brockley-Coombe--Fayland--Cottage--Poor Dinah--
Goblin-Coombe--Langford court--Mendip lodge--Wrington--Blagdon--Author
of the tune of "Auld Robin Gray"--Auld Robin Gray--Auld Lang Syne.

PART FIFTH.

Lang syne--Return to the Deluge--Vision of the
Flood--Archangel--Trump--Voice--Phantom-horse--Dove of the Ark--Dove
ascending--Conclusion.

BANWELL HILL.

PART FIRST.

INTRODUCTION--GENERAL VIEW--CAVE--ASCENT--VIEW--STEEP HOLMS--FLAT
HOLMS--SEA.

If, gazing from this eminence, I wake,
With thronging thoughts, the harp of poesy
Once more, ere night descend, haply with tones
Fainter, and haply with a long farewell;
If, looking back upon the lengthened way
My feet have trod, s