15 SEPTEMBER 1900, Page 16

TURNING EASTWARDS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] STR,—In corroboration of " Vicarius Vigorniensis" (Spectator, September 8th), may I recall to your memory Wordsworth's

second poem, " On Seeing the Foundation Preparing for the Erection of — Chapel, Westmoreland," especially the fourth verse P- " Mindful of Him who in the Orient born There lived, and on the Cross His life resigned, And who, from out the regions of the morn, Issuing in pomp, shall come to judge mankind."

Also the last lines :- " That symbol of the damning from on high, Triumphant o'er the darkness of the grave."

—I am, Sir, &c.,