 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
 | Henry Mandeville - Elocution - 1850 - 368 pages
...painful and discreditable shocks Culpably cherished, or corrupt relapse To some unsanctioned fear ? Why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks Of...memorial footsteps, unimpaired, Of her own native vigor : thence can hear Reverberations, and a choral song Commingling with the incense that ascends,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 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 discern! The dear memorial footsteps unimpair'd Of her own native vigour, thence can hear Reverberations,... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...contradiction : from some vague desire Culpably cherished, or corrupt relapse To some unsanctioned fear ? Why m age Do we revert so fondly to the walks Of childhood,...memorial footsteps, unimpaired, Of her own native vigor: thence can hear Reverberations, and a choral song Commingling with the incense that ascends,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1851 - 748 pages
...also the passage in "Tin: EXCURSION," Book IX: Ah ! why in age Do we revert BO fondly to the walks Ot" torm) Doubtless, I should have then made common cause...some who perished ; haply perished too, A poor mist — thence can hear Reverberations ; and a choral song, Commingling with the incense that ascends Undaunted... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 792 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 unimpair'd Of her own native vigour, thence can hear Reverberations, and a choral song, Commingling... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1854 - 388 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,... | |
 | Child rearing - 1854 - 460 pages
...cord invisible, — • Th« silver thread of faith ! HOME AND ITS INFLUENCES. BY EEV. CYRUS MA.SN. " Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks Of childhood?" THERE are early associations which neither time nor distance can efface. No circumstances of elevation... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 472 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... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 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 unimpair'd Of her own native vigour — but for this, That it is given her thence in age to hear Reverberations,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Bookbinding - 1858 - 550 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 unimpair'd Ot her own native vigour — but for this, That it is given her thence in age to hear Reverberations,... | |
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