...associations, as the living poetry of existence, the prolonged echo of life's fresh and fragrant dawn. " Those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day — Are yet a master-light of all our seeing — Uphold us, cherish...

...realized, High instincts, before which our moral Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised 1 But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing ; Uphold us— cherish...

...with him, he was a stranger to " those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings, Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realised," which haunt the poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge. From the conscientious and reverent meditation...

...Wordsworth calls them, "Before which our mortal nature Did tremble, like a guilty thing surprised: those first affections, Those shadowy recollections Which, be they what they may, Are yet the Fountain-light of all our day, Are yet the master-light of all our seeing: Uphold us, cherish,...

...moment into the same atmosphere which the poet breathes. " High instincts," Wordsworth calls them, " Before which our mortal nature Did tremble, like a guilty thing surprised: those first affections, Those shadowy recollections Which, be they what they may, Are yet the Fountain-light...

...obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishiugs ; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realised ; High instincts before which our mortal Nature Doth tremble like a guilty Thing surprised ;" — or because he shrinks from them with dislike as a...

...obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishiugs ; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realised ; High instincts before which our mortal Nature Doth tremble like a guilty Thing surprised ;" — or because he shrinks from them with dislike as a...

...Bong of thanks and praise; But for those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a creature...nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised. . . ." " ' What,' I said, ' are these fallings from us, for which he gives God thanks more than for...

...convinced already. There still remain " those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings ; Blank misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realised;" and though we may hear the mighty waters rolling evermore, we turn away with a sigh. " Who is he that...

...Fallings from us, vanishings ; Black misgivings of a creature Moving about in worlds not realized, High instincts, before which our mortal nature Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised ! But for thoae first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain...