And none had lived before you!'

"One morning thus by Esthwaite Lake,

When life was sweet, I knew not why,

To me my good friend Mathew spake,

And thus I made reply:—

"'The eye it can not choose but see;

We can not bid the ear be still;

Our bodies feel, where'er they be,

Against or with our will.

"'Nor less I deem that there are powers