...what it augurs of the life to come.* In " The Excursion " he virtually affirms the doctrine. He asks : 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,...

...Use and Wont, That guard the portals of the house. 131-71. For this stanza cf. Excursion, ix, 36-44: 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,...

...tells of Being past, Nor what it augurs of the life to come " ; 3S Again, in The Excursion, he asks: " Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks...Of childhood — but that there the Soul discerns 32 Ode, Intimations of Immortality, II. 108-167. "3 The Prelude, Bk. V, 11. 507-511. The dear memorial...

...so it is. (V, 507-512) He employs the language of religion to reflect the sacredness of childhood. 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,...

...so it is. (V, 507-513) He employs the language of religion to reflect the sacredness of childhood. Ah ! why in age Do we revert so fondly to the walks...Soul discerns The dear memorial footsteps unimpaired 'Wordsworth, according to the Wordsworth Concordance. has used the following words in 'their different...

...acceptance of the order of things in which it finds itself, that makes us revert to it so fondly. It is there the soul discerns The dear memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigour ; thence can hear Reverberations, and a choral song. . . . (Exc. ix. 36) rather, that this (somewhat...

...recollections in old age, quoted above, with the following lines from the ninth book; of the Excursion: "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,...

...the following lines from the ninth book of the Excursion: "All! why in age L)o we revert so fondly tu the walks Of childhood, — but that there the Soul...memorial footsteps unimpaired Of her own native vigour ; thence can hear Reverberations; and a choral song Commingling with the incense that ascends, Undaunted,...

...at whatever period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth" (E&L 1 0) . "Why in age, / Do we revert so fondly to the walks of Childhood?" asks Wordsworth's Wanderer. Because "there the soul discerns / The dear memorial footsteps unimpaired...

...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,...