To ordinary human faculty,
The thoughts which give the act significance.
Who is a poet needs must apprehend
Alike both speech and thoughts which prompt to speak.
Part these, and thought withdraws to poetry:
Speech is reported in the newspaper.)
He said, then, probably no word at all,
But thought as follows—in a minute's space—
One particle of ore beats out such leaf!
"This Spring-morn I am forty-three years old: