...of heaven I saw a Man before me unawares . The oldest man he seemed that ever wore gray hairs. IX. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself ; x. Such seemed this Man, not all alive nor dead, Nor all asleep —...

...boulders are, let a great poet testify ; for the fact has not escaped the delicate eye of Wordsworth : " As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself." To the civilised poet, the fancy becomes a beautiful simile ; to a...

...seemed that ever wore grey hairs. IX. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the hald hrook, or Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting hy the shores ii seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-heast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand...

...Couched on the bald top of an eminence, Wonder to all who do the same espy By what means it could hither come, and whence ; So that it seems a thing endued...— Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf •Such seemed this man, not all alive nor dead. Nor all asleep, in his extreme old age. His body was...

...shape and outline, resembling many others in West Yorkshire, and reminding one of Wordsworth's simile : As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...it could thither come and whence ; So that it seems n thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock, or sand, reposcth...

...eye of heaven I saw a Man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself ; x. Such seemed this Man, not all alive nor dead, Nor all asleep —...

...motionless : To the pool's farther margin then I drew, He being all the while before me full in view. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself; Such seemed this man, not all alive...

...stands before him — a living man — he seems to the poet as something seen "in Visions of the Lord." As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself. Such seemed this man, not all alive nor dead, Nor all asleep in his...

...let a great poet testify ; for the fact has not escaped the delicate eye of Wordsworth : " As a hnge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald...sense ; Like a sea.beast crawled forth, that on a shalf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself." To the civilised poet, the fancy becomes a beautiful...

...of till will be found with their scattered boulders sometimes many tons in weight. In such places ' A huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the...thither come and whence, So that it seems a thing indued with sense, Like a sea beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there...