...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...yet; The clouds that gather round the setting sun l)o take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath...

...relinquimed one delight, To live beneath your more habitual fway. I love the brooks, which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripped lightly as they ; The innocent brightnefs of a new-born day Is lovely yet ; The clouds that gather round the fetting fun Do take a...

...east / Must travel," follows a similar course. Here is the Ode's version of the Miltonic close: 14 The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms are won. (1I. 197-200) A difference in tone can be discerned between these two passages: Milton's Hnal vision—that...

...sunset that is effected by a matured mind in terms of a sober coloring projected on the visual radiance: The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. In a parallel way in "Tintern Abbey"...

...In the faith that looks through death, In years that bring the philosophic mind. (1. 185—186) 86 string with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming (1. 194-197) 87 To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for...

...times 'Mont Blanc"s impressions of eternity seem to intimate the absence of a Wordsworthian vision: The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality (IO, 199-201) the snows flakes fall deseend Upon that mountain - none beholds them there Nor when the...

...relinquished one delight To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripped lightly...an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; 200 Another race hath been, and other palms are won. Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks...

...spoke of "sober," maturing experiences that alter our youthful perspective. In the Intimations ode, The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. This, the "eye" of an anything but neutral or "ignorant" man, reports no purely independent objective...

...relinquished one delight To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks which down their channels fret. Even more than when I tripped lightly as they; The innocent brightness of a new-bom Day Is lovely yet; The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from...

...TO A NEW PHILOSOPHY In the faith that looks through death. In years that bring the philosophic mind. The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. —Wordsworth, Intimations of Immortality In 1973-74, I wrote Responsible Vision: The Philosophy of...