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INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY

FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHIZDHOOD*

The Child is father of the Man;
And f could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety,

 

THE CHILD.

1. If,
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The Rainbow comes and goes,
The earth, and every common sight, And lovely is the Rose,
To me did seem The Moon doth with delight
Apparelled in celestial light, Look round her when the heavens are bare,
- The glory and the freshness of a dream. Waters on a starry night
It is not now as it hath been of yore ;— Are beautiful and fair;
Turn wheresoe’er I may, The sunshine is a glorious birth;
By night or day, But yet I know, where’er I go,
The things which I have seen I now can see no That there hath passed away a glory from the
more. , earth, .

—_——

* From Poems by William Wordsworth.

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