"TO HUMBLENESS OF HEART DESCENDS THIS PRESCIENCE FROM ON HIGH-WORDSWORTH) 494 66 CONFIRM THE SPIRIT GLORYING TO PURsue-(wordsWORTH) WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. daughter of these, the stable child of visible and invisible subtlety, made to X. WITHIN. MOST sweet it is with unuplifted eyes To pace the ground, if path there be or none, The beauty coming and the beauty gone.- The Mind's internal heaven shall shed her dews XI. ART AND DEVOTION. TAX not the royal Saint* with vain expense, Of white-robed scholars only) this immense Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense *King Henry VI., founder of King's College, Cambridge. SOME PATH OF STEEP ASCENT AND LOFTY AIM."-WORDSWORTH. THE FAITH THAT ELEVATES THE JUST, BEFORE AND WHEN THEY DIE."-WORDSWORTH. "SOFT IS THE MUSIC THAT WOULD CHARM FOR EVER;-WORDSWORTH) These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Lingering and wandering on as loth to die, Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality. [This sonnet was suggested by King's College Chapel, Cambridge; one of the finest specimens extant of the later Gothic architecture.] "GOD, WHO INSTRUCTS THE BRUTES TO SCENT ALL CHANGES OF THE ELEMENT, WHOSE WISDOM FIXED THE SCALE OF NATURES, FOR OUR WANTS PROVIDES BY HIGHER, SOMETIMES HUMBLER, GUIDES, WHEN REASON FAILS."-WORDSWORTH. THE FLOWER OF SWEETEST SMELL IS SHY AND LOWLY."-WORDSWORTH. "DELICIOUS IS THE LAY THAT SINGS THE HAUNTS OF HAPPY LOVERS-WILLIAM WORDSWORTH) BRIGHT AS THE GLIMPSES OF ETERNITY-(W. WORDSWORTH) WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Or is it some more humble lay, THE PATH THAT LEADS THEM TO THE GROVE, THE LEAFY GROVE THAT COVERS."-WORDSWORTH. [The reader's attention may here be called to the masterly skill with which the poet has employed the effect of distance, the beauty of his TO SAINTS ACCORDED IN THEIR MORTAL HOUR."-WORDSWORTH. "TIS NOT IN BATTLES THAT FROM YOUTH WE TRAIN THE GOVERNOR WHO MUST BE WISE AND GOOD;-(WORDSWORTH) ON EARTH BELOW, THEY BEST CAN SERVE TRUE GLADNESS images being much increased by their remoteness. The nightingale sing- the reader.] AND TEMPER WITH THE STERNNESS OF THE BRAIN THOUGHTS WOMANLY, AND MEEK AS WOMANHOOD."-WORDSWORTH. TO THE CUCKOO. I hear thee and rejoice: O Cuckoo shall I call thee Bird, While I am lying on the grass, Thy twofold shout I hear; At once far off and near. Though babbling only to the vale Of sunshine and of flowers, Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring! Even yet thou art to me; The same whom in my school-boy days Which made me look a thousand ways In bush, and tree, and sky. To seek thee did I often rove Still longed for, never seen! WHO MEET MOST FEELINGLY THE CALLS OF SADNESS."-WORDSWORTH. "WISDOM DOTH LIVE WITH CHILDREN ROUND HER KNEES: BOOKS, LEISURE, PERFECT FREEDOM, AND THE TALK "NE'ER CAN THE WAY BE IRKSOME OR FORLORN-(WORDSWORTH) MAN HOLDS WITH WEEK-DAY MAN IN THE HOURLY WALK OF THE MIND'S BUSINESS."-WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. "To seek thee did I often rove through woods."] And I can listen to thee yet; O blessed bird! the earth we pace Again appears to be THAT WINDS INTO ITSELF FOR SWEET RETURN."-WORDSWORTH. |