Lake country sketches

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, AETAT 77.
By the Rev.
H. D. Rawnsley
Honorary Canon of Carlisle
Author of Literary Associations of the English Lakes.
Glasgow James MacLehose and Sons Publishers to the University 1903
GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO.
TO A TRUE LOVER OF NATURE AND THE ENGLISH LAKES EDITH MY WIFE
From Nature and her overflowing soul, I had received so much, that all my thoughts Were steeped in feeling; I was only then Contented, when with bliss ineffable I felt the sentiment of Being spread O'er all that moves and all that seemeth still; O'er all that, lost beyond the reach of thought And human knowledge, to the human eye Invisible, yet liveth to the heart; O'er all that leaps and runs, and shouts and sings, Or beats the gladsome air; o'er all that glides Beneath the wave, yea, in the wave itself, And mighty depth of waters. Wonder not If high the transport, great the joy I felt, Communing in this sort through earth and heaven With every form of creature, as it looked Towards the Uncreated with a countenance Of adoration, with an eye of love.
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