 He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth, Smiles broke from us and we had ease; The hills were round us, and the breeze Went o'er the sun-lit fields again; Our foreheads felt the wind and rain. Our youth return'd; for there was shed...  Littell's Living Age - Seite 2781850Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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...poet died, Arnold observes that, in an "iron time," Wordsworth had "loosed our hearts in tears," had "laid us as we lay at birth / On the cool flowery lap of earth" (43, 47-49). 5 But having alluded to the sixth stanza of the Intimations Ode (where "Earth fills her... | |
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