The human Soul of universal earth
Dreaming of things to come”
will be a greater glory than the ideals of imaginative fiction ever fancied:
“For the discerning intellect of Man,
When wedded to this goodly universe
In love and holy passion, shall find these
A simple produce of the common day.”
If Wordsworth, thus, as it were, echoing the great conception of Francis Bacon,
“Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse
Of this great consummation,”