...like a guilty Thing surprised: 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; Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never;...

...experience and vision, an interweaving of past, present, and future, and a defense of faith and reason: "We will grieve not, rather find / Strength in what remains behind . . . / In the soothing thoughts that spring / Out of human suffering / In the faith that looks through death, / In...

...like a guilty Thing surprised: 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, and have power to make Our noisy years...