"of some Hermit’s cave" upslope, in fact acknowledges the presence of the local ironworks, or of charcoal burning, or of a paper works. Another contribution to the debate has been Crystal Lake's study of other poems written after a visit to Tintern Abbey, particularly those from about the same time as Wordsworth's. Noting not just the absence of direct engagement on his part with "the still sad music of humanity" in its present industrial manifestation, but also of its past evidence in the ruins of the abbey itself, she concludes that this "confirms Marjorie Levinson‘s well-known argument that the local politics of the Monmouthshire landscape require erasure if Wordsworth's poem is to advance its aesthetic agenda." The poems concerned include the following: 1745. Rev. Dr. Sneyd Davies, Epistle IV "Describing a Voyage to Tintern Abbey, in Monmouthshire, from Whitminster in Gloucestershire" About 1790. Rev. Duncomb Davis, "Poetical description of Tintern Abbey" 1790s. Edmund Gardner, "Sonnet written in Tintern Abbey" 1796. Edward Jerningham, "Tintern Abbey" About 1800. Rev. Luke Booker, "Original sonnet composed on leaving Tintern Abbey and proceeding with a party of friends down the River Wye to Chepstow" As the boat carrying Sneyd Davies neared Tintern Abbey, he noted the presence of "naked quarries" before passing to the ruins, bathed in evening light and blending into the natural surroundings to give a sense of "pleasurable sadness". The poem by Davies more or less sets the emotional tone for the poems to come and brackets past and present human traces far more directly than does Wordsworth. His fellow clergyman Duncomb Davis, being from the area, goes into more detail. After a historical deviation, he returns to the present, where … now no bell calls monks to morning prayer, Daws only chant their early matins there, Black forges smoke, and noisy hammers beat Where sooty Cyclops puffing, drink and sweat, following this with a description of the smelting process and a reflection that the present is more virtuous than the past. He anticipates Wordsworth by drawing a moral lesson from the scene, in his case noting the ivy-swathed ruin and exhorting, Fix deep the bright exemplar in thy heart: To friendship’s sacred call with joy attend, Cling, like the ivy, round a falling friend. Similar reflections appear in the two contemporary sonnets. For Edmund Gardner, "Man’s but a temple of a shorter date", while Luke Booker, embarking at sunset, hopes to