...interests — a friend and a child. To a miserable, lonely wretch like me, the idea was divine. CHAPTER II. Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour...death — In years, that bring the philosophic mind." WORDSWORTH. ROM that October afternoon I was a man saved from myself. Courvoisier had said, in answer...

...so bright Be now forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve...death, In years that bring the philosophic mind.' " When we came home, we found mother assisting Mary to dress for a wedding. The wedding,—don't you...

...sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the (lower, — We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains...death, In years that bring the philosophic mind. And 0 ye fountains, meadows, hills, and groves, Forebode not any severing of our lovea ! Yet in my heart...

...his Christian fortitude threw it aside, and peace came to him through tenderness for human kind. " We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains...death ; In years that bring the philosophic mind." That was his teaching. Shelley took, not a nobler,, but a more impassioned and prophetic strain. He...

...thither — And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. Then, sing ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song! And...mind. And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves, Forbode not any severing of our loves! Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might ; I only have relinquish'd...

...of fancy and conceit." There, soothing thoughts will indeed spring out of human suffering. Epilogue We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains...through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind. — "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" In its later books, The Prelude makes little inquiry into the...

...to feel begets thoughts that, by definition, order and control the lawless mutability of experience: We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains...through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind. (11. 179-86) If the "primal sympathy" affords awareness or the experiencing of all involved in "human...

...recapture the links with the past while letting go of it in actuality. As a result, he could conclude: "We will grieve not, rather find/ Strength in what...death,/ In years that bring the philosophic mind." John Stuart Mill was also able to find strength in what was left behind from his original Utilitarian...

...the close he is a participant, joining "in thought" at least the celebration that modulates grief: We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains...through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind. (1L180-87) If Wordsworth's vision seems somewhat "sober"" next to Milton's apocalyptic close—"Another...

...nostalgia is accepted and the value of loss is discovered in the gain of an adult faith and wisdom. What though the radiance which was once so bright...through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind. (11. 176-87} Yet there is something more than the integration of the self within time here, something...