Till every thought as gently as a flower,
That shuts its eyes at close of every day
Had folded up itself in dreamless sleep.[FY]
FOOTNOTES:
[DW] In January 1849, the year before Wordsworth's death, he was asked by Mr. Francis C. Yarnall of Philadelphia for his autograph, for a lady in America; and, in reply, he wrote the four lines, beginning
Soul of our Souls, and safeguard of the world!
They were doubtless suggested to him at the time by the death of his own daughter. See Mr. Yarnall's paper on "Wordsworth's Influence in America," in the Transactions of the Wordsworth Society, No. v.—ED.
[DX] With this whole passage compare the teaching of Kant's three Kritiken.—ED.
[DY] Compare the Ode, Intimations of Immortality—