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library , and spontaneously intent on those great classic writers of antiquity , who should be thus studied when studied , by boys at all , instead of being vulgarized by the whippery of grammar schools . * They came to me in my first dawn of life , Which passed alone with wisest ancient booksr , All halo-girt with fancies of my own ,
And I myself went with the fcale—a god , Wandering * after beauty—or a giant , Standing vast in the sunset—an old hunter , Talking with gods—or a high-crested chief , Sailing with troops of friends to Tenedos ;—
I tell you , naught has ever been so clear As the place , the time , the fashion of those lives I had not seen a work of lofty art , Nor woman ' s beauty , nor sweet nature ' s face , Yet , I say , never morn broke clear as those On the dim clustered isles in the blue sea :
The deep groves , and white temples , and wet caves—* And nothing ever will surprise me now—Who stood beside the naked Swift-footed , Who bound my forehead with Proserpine ' s hair . ' But the ideal , though thus strongly infused into his being , did not wholly pervade , or permanently elevate it . A vague sense of
power was generated , but the pressure of circumstances kept the spirit down ; restraint humbled and corrupted the soul ; and the mental and moral degradation which had commenced , would have proceeded rapidly and fatally , but that a purity of taste had been produced , which interposed to check the downward progress ; and in music a ministry was found which was one of preservation , till the soul was ripened for higher aspirations .
' As peace returned , I sought out some pursuit : And song rose—no new impulse—but the one With which all others best could be combined . My life has not been that of those whose heaven Was lampless , save where poesy shone out ; But as a clime , where glittering' mountain-tops , And glancing sea , and forests steeped in light ,
Give back reflected the far-flashing sun ; For music ( which is earnest of a heaven , Seeing we know emotions strange by it , Not else to be revealed ) is as a voice , A low voice calling Fancy , as a friend , To the green woods in the gay summer time
And she Alls all the way with dancing- shapes * Which have made painters pale ; and they go oji While stajs look at them , ajid winds call to them , As they leave \ ife * s path for the twilight world , Where the dead gather . This was not at first , For I scarce knew what I would do . I had No wish to paint , no yearning—but I ^ ang . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 255, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/39/
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