 Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks Of childhood — but that there the Soul discerns The dear memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigour ; thence can hear Reverberations ; and a choral song, Commingling with the incense that...  Poems: Now First Collected - Page 211by Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 402 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Wickham - 1841 - 258 pages
...is gratifying to record that very many years have now passed without an expulsion. 48 CHAPTER V. -" Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks...memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigour ; thence can hear Reverberations.?" WORDSWORTH. THE time intervening between the breakfast and nine... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1841 - 400 pages
...impulse ; and so moves the man 'Mid all his apprehensions, cares, and fears, — Or so he ought to move. Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks...memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigour ; thence can hear Reverberations; and a choral song, Commingling with the incense that ascends, Undaunted,... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Literature - 1841 - 662 pages
...Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to Ihe walks Of childhood, but that there the soul discerni The dear memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own...is given her thence in age to hear Reverberations ?"* As the Association of ideas is another state the mind is often found in, it may be proper to mention... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...impulse ; and so moves the man 'Mid all his apprehensions, cares, and fears, — Or so he ought to move. Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks...memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigour ; thence can hear Reverberations ; and a choral song, Commingling with the incense that ascends, Undaunted,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 686 pages
...impulse ; and so moves the man 'Mid all his apprehensions, cares, and fears, — Or so he ought to move. Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks...memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigour ; thence can hear Reverberations ; and a choral song, Commingling with the incense that ascends, Undaunted,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1847 - 404 pages
...impulse ; and so moves the man "Mid all his apprehensions, cares, and fears, — Or so he ought to move. Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks...there the Soul discerns The dear memorial footsteps " Of her own native vigour ; thence can hear Reverberations ; and a choral song, Commingling with the... | |
 | William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1849 - 404 pages
...impulse ; and so moves the man 'Mid all his apprehensions, cares, and fears,— Or so he ought to move. Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks Of childhood—but that there the Soul discerns The dear memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native... | |
 | sir Thomas Phillips - Church and education - 1850 - 236 pages
...were folded and placed in the coffin under the head of James Davies. CHAPTER V. LLAN GATTOCK-LINGOED. Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks...memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigour. life of man is a pilgrimage : his years threescore and ten, and if he be so strong as to come to fourscore... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - English language - 1850 - 132 pages
...heaven-sick soul is stealing away. EXERCISE IV. From " The Discourse of 'the Wanderer." — WORDSWORTH. Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks...dear memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigor — but for this, 5 That it is given her thence in age to hear Reverberations, and a choral song,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1850 - 620 pages
...impulse ; and so moves the man 'Mid all his apprehensions, cares, and fears, — Or so he ought to move. Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks...dear memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigor ; thence can hear Reverberations ; and a choral song, Commingling with the incense that ascends,... | |
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