"[...] 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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