The Eyes of the World: A Novel
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Book Description
To look on Nature not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The sad, still music of humanity, Not harsh or grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt, A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts-, a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused. Whose dwelling is in the lights of setting suns, And the round ocean and the li...
MoreTo look on Nature not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The sad, still music of humanity, Not harsh or grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt, A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts-, a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused. Whose dwelling is in the lights of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man. A motion and a spirit that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thoughts, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover oj the meadoivs and the nvoods And mountains And this prayer I make, Knovuing thatN ature never did betray The heart that loved her. Tis her privilege Through all the years of this one life, to lead From joy to joy; for she can so inform The mind that is voithin us so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall eer prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith. William Wordsworth.
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