Through life’s worst trials, whether shocks or snares,
A happier, brighter, purer Heaven than theirs.[304]
[302] 1850.
Who that lies down and may not wake to sorrow
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[303] 1850.
They mount for rapture; this their …
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[304] This sonnet was suggested by the death of Wordsworth’s grandson commemorated in the previous sonnet, and by the alarming illness of his brother, the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the expected death of a nephew (John Wordsworth), at Ambleside, the only son of his eldest brother, Richard.—Ed.