1. ۱_How often we forget all time, when lone
2. ۲Admiring Nature's universal throne;
3. ۳Her woods--her wilds--her mountains--the intense
4. ۴Reply of Hers to Our intelligence!_
5. ۵
6. ۶In youth I have known one with whom the Earth
7. ۷ In secret communing held--as he with it,
8. ۸In daylight, and in beauty, from his birth:
9. ۹ Whose fervid, flickering torch of life was lit
10. ۱۰From the sun and stars, whence he had drawn forth
11. ۱۱ A passionate light such for his spirit was fit--
12. ۱۲And yet that spirit knew--not in the hour
13. ۱۳ Of its own fervor--what had o'er it power.
14. ۱۴
15. ۱۵Perhaps it may be that my mind is wrought
16. ۱۶ To a ferver by the moonbeam that hangs o'er,
17. ۱۷But I will half believe that wild light fraught
18. ۱۸ With more of sovereignty than ancient lore
19. ۱۹Hath ever told--or is it of a thought
20. ۲۰ The unembodied essence, and no more
21. ۲۱That with a quickening spell doth o'er us pass
22. ۲۲ As dew of the night-time, o'er the summer grass?
23. ۲۳
24. ۲۴Doth o'er us pass, when, as th' expanding eye
25. ۲۵ To the loved object--so the tear to the lid
26. ۲۶Will start, which lately slept in apathy?
27. ۲۷ And yet it need not be--(that object) hid
28. ۲۸From us in life--but common--which doth lie
29. ۲۹ Each hour before us--but then only bid
30. ۳۰With a strange sound, as of a harp-string broken
31. ۳۱ T' awake us--'Tis a symbol and a token--
32. ۳۲
33. ۳۳Of what in other worlds shall be--and given
34. ۳۴ In beauty by our God, to those alone
35. ۳۵Who otherwise would fall from life and Heaven
36. ۳۶ Drawn by their heart's passion, and that tone,
37. ۳۷That high tone of the spirit which hath striven
38. ۳۸ Though not with Faith--with godliness--whose throne
39. ۳۹With desperate energy 't hath beaten down;
40. ۴۰ Wearing its own deep feeling as a crown.