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RECOKD OF A VANISHED LIFE. 187 THE
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I Went Abroad. All The Fairest Scenes Of...
furnished wonders I turned month of me _Ma also chased with ture to . a the perpetual month My microscope little throug , still garden hout , del and , i the and ght to circling , the which the country inexhaustible 1 grew changes round upon of ,
me the and as year interrogated . I interrogated the mystic the , unfathomable JErdgeist which spirit repulsed , with Faust more , and whirl of the
passion busy succes city s than and . of I I had read action ever much to done those ; but in of the I contemp turned stir lation from and the of poets deepest great of ,
thoug abandoned ht—those B who for Wordsworth reconcile sp . iritualism The fever and and the intellect strain . of I
hot and erring yron human passion paled before the mild , high charm of
" The silence that Is in the starry sky , The sleep that is upon the lonely hills . "
pour The rushing a stream flow of turg of id bardic , earth . insp -stained iration ht waters seemed water ; I to came me mirror to often prefer the to
the still and silent lakewhose brig , pure s violets solemn dep and ths the of soft infinite sward , space around , while it m its elts banks into the are " sweet cool dark with
reminds of The dewy , line leaves just of . its " quoted author , which Tennyson rose unbid is pre de -eminentl n to my y thoug the poet ht , *'
of at least thought me as . in In hig sublim hly wroug ated . ht thoug passion ht , . there Thoug is ht as , much at its poetry purest ,
ment and hig , hest Tennyson , rises has to song as I as think worthil as y much as do of feeling the true and bardic
sentimeditatio flow and . fire broods as has any beside , passionate the fount minstrel , of the ; but welling the profoundest springand
poetic thought impulses and n conscience which when attune they to first a yet left diviner their ich harmony source , were the
tainted somewhat from the earth mid whthey sprang . Tennyson so cherished softened ' ideal s b hi y g s godlik h by muse the e , repose side so the calm of , took habits Milton yet so its of intense and place Wordsworth life in , its my led native sanctum . back nerve The of
wards temper in of literature my mind . , and I turned to a calmer my , fuller , time me , when - men lived less feverishly and their thought less restlessly ifts in the , tranquillity
_undreadingof of the the critic " quiet , and soul develop content ing ; " of happy the minds g which , to them , a kingdom were . I turned to the poetry fancied of the the Elizabethan oriel window age of .
In the my old visio manorial n of thes hall e olden the poets window , I looking out upon stately trees and smoothest sward ; ; upon the quaint old pleasaune ©
spread _greenwood beneath shaw , the swelling Tudor grassy terrace hill ; s or , and upon the copse ferny and woodlands covert , ,
Recokd Of A Vanished Life. 187 The
RECOKD OF A VANISHED LIFE . 187 THE
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 187, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/43/
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