3/10/2012

From Ode To Immortality - Wordsworth

And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves, 
Forebode not any severing of our loves! 
Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might;
I only have relinquish'd one delight 
To live beneath your more habitual sway; 
I love the brooks which down their channels fret 
Even more than when I tripp'd lightly as they; 
The innocent brightness of a new-born day Is lovely yet; 
The clouds that gather round the setting sun 
Do take a sober colouring from an eye 
That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; 
Another race hath been, and other palms are won. 
Thanks to the human heart by which we live, 
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, 
To me the meanest flower that blows can give 
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

2 comments:

  1. This is a good addition to the Seamus Heaney post. "Thoughts...too deep for tears."

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  2. Perfect for my Saturday morning.

    Love you.

    S

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