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Island, guarded from profane approach

By mountains high and waters widely spread,

Is that recess to which St. Herbert came

In life's decline; a self-secluded Man,

After long exercise in social cares

And offices humane, intent to adore

The Deity, with undistracted mind,

And meditate on everlasting things.

—Stranger! this shapeless heap of stones and earth

(Long be its mossy covering undisturbed!)

Is reverenced as a vestige of the Abode

In which, through many seasons, from the world

Removed, and the affections of the world,

He dwelt in solitude.—But he had left