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Rest in the bottom lay。



For if I should (said He)

Bestow this jewel also on My creature;

He would adore My gifts instead of Me;

And rest in Nature; not the God of Nature:

So both should losers be。



Yet let him keep the rest;

But keep them with repining restlessness;

Let him be rich and weary; that at least;

If goodness lead him not; yet weariness

May toss him to My breast。



George Herbert '1593…1633'





ODE ON THE INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY

FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD



I

There was a time when meadow; grove; and stream;

The earth; and every common sight;

To me did seem

Apparelled in celestial light;

The glory and the freshness of a dream。

It is not now as it hath been of yore; …

Turn wheresoe'er I may;

By night or day;

The things which I have seen I now can see no more。



II

The Rainbow comes and goes;

And lovely is the Rose;

The Moon doth with delight

Look round her when the heavens are bare;

Waters on a starry night

Are beautiful and fair;

The sunshine is a glorious birth;

But yet I know; where'er I go;

That there hath passed away a glory from the earth。



III

Now; while the Birds thus sing a joyous song;

And while the young Lambs bound

As to the tabor's sound;

To me alone there came a thought of grief:

A timely utterance gave that thought relief;

And I again am strong。

The Cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep:

No more shall grief of mine the season wrong;

I hear the Echoes through the mountains throng;

The Winds come to me from the fields of sleep;

And all the earth is gay;

Land and Sea

Give themselves up to jollity;

And with the heart of May

Doth every Beast keep holiday; …

Thou Child of Joy;

Shout round me; let me hear thy shouts; thou happy Shepherd…boy!



IV

Ye blessed Creatures; I have heard the call

Ye to each other make; I see

The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee;

My heart is at your festival;

My head hath its coronal;

The fulness of your bliss; I feel … I feel it all。

O evil day! if I were sullen

While Earth herself is adorning

This sweet May morning;

And the Children are culling

On every side;

In a thousand valleys far and wide;

Fresh flowers; while the sun shines warm;

And the Babe leaps up on his Mother's arm: …

I hear; I hear; with joy I hear!

… But there's a Tree; of many; one;

A single Field which I have looked upon;

Both of them speak of something that is gone:

The Pansy at my feet

Doth the same tale repeat:

Whither is fled the visionary gleam?

Where is it now; the glory and the dream?



V

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:

The Soul that rises with us; our life's Star;

Hath had elsewhere its setting;

And cometh from afar:

Not in entire forgetfulness;

And not in utter nakedness;

But trailing clouds of glory do we come

From God; who is our home:

Heaven lies about us in our infancy!

Shades of the prison…house begin to close

Upon the growing Boy;

But he beholds the light; and whence it flows;

He sees it in his joy;

The Youth; who daily farther from the East

Must travel; still is Nature's Priest;

And by the vision spendid

Is on his way attended;

At length the Man perceives it die away;

And fade into the light of common day。



VI

Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;

Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind;

And even with something of a Mother's mind;

And no unworthy aim;

The homely Nurse doth all she can;

To make her Foster…child; her Inmate Man;

Forget the glories he hath known;

And that imperial palace whence he came。



VII

Behold the Child among his new…born blisses;

A six years' darling of a pigmy size!

See; where 'mid work of his own hand he lies;

Fretted by sallies of his Mother's kisses;

With light upon him from his Father's eyes!

See; at his feet; some little plan or chart;

Some fragment from his dream of human life;

Shaped by himself with newly…learned art;

A wedding or a festival;

A mourning or a funeral;

And this hath now his heart;

And unto this he frames his song:

Then will he fit his tongue

To dialogues of business; love; or strife:

But it will not be long

Ere this be thrown aside;

And with new joy and pride

The little Actor cons another part;

Filling from time to time his 〃humorous stage〃

With all the Persons; down to palsied Age;

That Life brings with her in her equipage;

As if his whole vocation

Were endless imitation。



VIII

Thou; whose exterior semblance doth belie

Thy Soul's immensity;

Thou best Philosopher; who yet dost keep

Thy heritage; thou Eye among the blind;

That; deaf and silent; read'st the eternal deep;

Haunted for ever by the eternal mind; …

Mighty Prophet! Seer blest!

On whom those truths do rest;

Which we are toiling all our lives to find;

In darkness lost; the darkness of the grave:

Thou; over whom thy Immortality

Broods like the Day; a master o'er a Slave;

A Presence which is not to be put by;

Thou little Child; yet glorious in the might

Of heaven…born freedom on thy being's height;

Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke

The years to bring the inevitable yoke;

Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife?

Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight;

And Custom lie upon thee with a weight

Heavy as frost; and deep almost as life!



IX

O joy! that in our embers

Is something that doth live;

That nature yet remembers

What was so fugitive!

The thought of our past years in me doth breed

Perpetual benediction: not indeed

For that which is most worthy to be blest …

Delight and liberty; the simple creed

Of Childhood; whether busy or at rest;

With new…fledged hope still fluttering in his breast: …

Not for these I raise

The song of thanks and praise;

But for those obstinate questionings

Of sense and outward things;

Fallings from us; vanishings;

Blank misgivings of a Creature

Moving about in worlds not realized;

High instincts before which our mortal Nature

Did tremble like a guilty thing surprised:

But for those first affections;

Those shadowy recollections;

Which; be they what they may;

Are yet the fountain…light of all our day;

Are yet a master…light of all our seeing;

Uphold us; cherish; and have power to make

Our noisy years seem moments in the being

Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake;

To perish never;

Which neither listlessness; nor mad endeavor;

Nor Man nor Boy;

Nor all that is at enmity with joy;

Can utterly abolish or destroy!

Hence; in a season of calm weather;

Though inland far we be;

Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea

Which brought us hither;

Can in a moment travel thither

And see the children sport upon the shore;

And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore。



X

Then sing; ye Birds; sing; sing a joyous song!

And let the young Lambs bound

As to the tabor's sound!

We in thought will join your throng;

Ye that pipe and ye that play;

Ye that through your hearts to…day

Feel the gladness of the May!

What though the radiance which was once so bright

Be now for ever taken from my sight;

Though nothing can bring back the hour

Of splendor in the grass; of glory in the flower;

We will grieve not; rather find

Strength in what remains behind;

In the primal sympathy

Which having been must ever be;

In the soothing thoughts that spring

Out of human suffering;

In the faith that looks through death;

In years that bring the philosophic mind。



XI

And O; ye Fountains; Meadows; Hills; and Groves;

Forebode not any severing of our loves!

Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might;

I only have relinquished one delight

To live beneath your more habitual sway。

I love the Brooks; which down their channels fret;

Even more than when I tripped lightly as they:

The innocent brightness of a new…born Day

Is lovely yet;

The Clouds that gather round the setting sun

Do take a sober coloring from an eye

That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality;

Another race hath been; and other palms are won。

Thanks to the human heart by which we live;

Thanks to its tenderness; its joys; and fears;

To me the meanest flower that blows can give

Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears。



William Wordsworth '1770…1850'













THE WOMAN













WOMAN 



Not she with traitorous kiss her Saviour stung;

Not she denied him with unholy tongue;

She; while apostles shrank; could dangers brave;

Last at the cross and earliest at the grave。



Eaton Stannard Barrett '1786…1820'





WOMAN



There in the fane a beauteous creature stands;

The first best work of the Creator's hands;

Whose slender limbs inadequately bear

A full…orbed bosom and a weight of care;

Whose teeth like pearls; whose lips like cherries; show;

And fawn…like eyes still tremble as they glow。



From the Sanskrit of Calida

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