The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 8 (of 8)

by William Wordsworth

Of childhood—but that there the Soul discerns

The dear memorial footsteps unimpaired

Of her own native vigour—thence can hear

Reverberations; and a choral song,

Commingling with the incense that ascends,

Undaunted, toward the imperishable heavens,

From her own lonely altar?

The Excursion, book ix. ll. 36-44.

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