With sober Reason Faith unites

To vindicate the ideal rights 10

Of human-kind—the tone agreeing

Of objects with internal seeing,

Of effort with the end of Being.

Wordsworth added, in the letter to Robinson, “Is the above intelligible? I fear not! I know, however, my own meaning, and that’s enough for Manuscripts.”—Ed.


1835

“THRONED IN THE SUN’S DESCENDING CAR”