"[...] Then sing, ye birds, sing, sing a joyous song! | |
| And let the young lambs bound | |
| As to the tabor's sound! | |
| We in thought will join your throng, | |
| Ye that pipe and ye that play, | |
| Ye that through your hearts to-day | |
| Feel the gladness of the May! | |
| What though the radiance which was once so bright | |
| Be now for ever taken from my sight, | |
| Though nothing can bring back the hour | |
| Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; | |
| We will grieve not, rather find | |
| Strength in what remains behind; | |
| In the primal sympathy | |
| Which having been must ever be; | |
| In the soothing thoughts that spring | |
| Out of human suffering; | |
| In the faith that looks through death, | |
| In years that bring the philosophic mind. | |
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| 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."
(William Wordsworth, "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood", 1802-1804)
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