A book of English poetry; ed. by T. Shorter

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A~d Do•, with gleams of. hal!-extinguiah'd Uloag1t\
With JllaDY recognitions dim and ft.Lint,
And 801oewh&t of a. aad perplexity,
The picture ofthe mind revives lloQ'&in:
While here lst.aud, not ouly with the sense
Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thought.
That in this moment there is life a.nd food
For fu t ure yurs. And so I dare to hope,
Tllongh che.nged, no dou ht, fl'om what I wa.a when first
I ca.me among these hills; when lill:tt a roe
I bounded o'er the mountains, by tho sides
Of the deep rivers, and the lonely atream1,
"Wherever nature led: more like a. man
Flying from something that he dre&da, \han one
Who sought the thing he loved. For na-ture theu
(The co&l"Ber pleasurE!$ of my boyiah rlay1,
.And their glad animal movement• all gone br)
To me was all in all.-1 Mnnot pRint
What thell I wsa. The soun•ling cntaract
Haunted me like a p11.88ioo : the taU rock,
The mountain, aud the deep and gloomy wood,
Their colours and their forma, were then to me
An appetite ; a feeling Rnd a love,
That had no need of a remoter charm,
By thought supplied, nor aoy intereat
Unborrow'd from the eye.-That time is put,
.And aU ita aching joya are oow no JJWP& 1
And all ita dizzy raptu~eL Not for this
Faint I, nor moum nor murmur; other gifts
Have follow'd ; for 11uch to-. I would believe.
Abundant reoompenae •. For l have le&l1l'd
To Look on na'ure, oot as in the. hour
Of thouf.btle111 youth, but hea.riog oftentim•
The stil 1 aad muaic o(humanity,
Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample powu
To cbaaten and subdue. .Aut! I bllve felt
A. presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated tbongbUI; a eense aublime
Of something far more clet>ply ioterfu~~ed,
Whose dwelling Ia the light of letting auna,
And the 'rOnod ocee.n, and t&e living m,
.And the blue aky, and in the miud of mM •
A motion e.nd a 1pirit that impels
All tbiilking thiilgt 1 all objeo_ta of all 'bought,

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