...nor mourn nor murmur ; other gifts Have followed ; for such lose I would believe Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, but of amplest power To soften and subdue. " And...

...recompense : and he goes on to recount the graver instruction which the landscape gives since he can hear The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating,...though of ample power To chasten and subdue ; and can recognize In nature and the language of the sense, The anchor of his purest thoughts, the nurse,...

...thoughtless youth ; but hearing, oftentimes, The still, sad music of humanity ; Not harsh and grating, though of ample power •- To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; — a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused....

...pictured here. Our correspondent, indeed, seems to have felt like Wordsworth, where he says, — " For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humamty. Not harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And...

...beauties we learn " To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but to hear oft-times, The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh, nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue." " Wordsworth," says one of his reviewers, " will be read in the better days...

...such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompense. For I have learn'd To look on Nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth ; but, hearing oftentimes...chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused,...

...conjectural an interest more akin to flesh and blood ; and amid all these intricate harmonies he can catch oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue ! Something of this may be due to the corrective influences of habits of parochial...

...next a paragraph from his much admired and inexpressibly affecting poem entitled Tintern Abbey : — I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour...chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused,...

...nor mourn, nor murmur; other gifts Have followed; for such loss I would believe Abundant recompense. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the...hour Of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, but of amplest power To soften and subdue. " That...

...thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes The still sad music of humanity, Not harsh, nor grating-, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A spirit which disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Whose dwelling is the light...