They are there, you feel, to teach the same lesson as the landscape teaches in which they are set.

The passing of the old Cumberland beggar through villages and past farmsteads, brings to those who see him the same kind of consolation as the impulses from a vernal wood that Wordsworth celebrated in his purely nature poetry.

Compare with Wordsworth, Browning, and note the fundamental change in the attitude of the poet that his work reveals.

_Pippa Passes_ is a poem on exactly the same scheme as the _Old Cumberland Beggar_, but in treatment no two things could be further apart.

The intervention of Pippa is dramatic, and though her song is in the same key as the wordless message of Wordsworth's beggar she is a world apart from him, because she is something not out of natural history, but out of life.