INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY. 83

 

INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY

“FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD.

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;

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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 }