Shall he feel yearning to those lifeless forms,
And shall we think that Nature is less kind
To those, who all day long, through a busy life,
Have walked within her sight? It cannot be. 10
1803
“I FIND IT WRITTEN OF SIMONIDES”
Published in The Morning Post, October 10, 1803
S.T.C. writing to Tom Poole, October 14, 1803, said that Wordsworth wrote to The Morning Post “as W. L. D., and sometimes with no signature.” There is ample evidence that the following sonnet was written by Wordsworth. He had contributed five sonnets to The Morning Post before the month of September 1803; and on the 10th of October in that year the following appeared.—Ed.