THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, D. C. L., POET LAUREATE, ETC., ETC. VOLUME I. BOSTON: LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY. MDCCCLXIV. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON. IF thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven, And they that from the zenith dart their beams, (Visible though they be to half the earth, Though half a sphere be conscious of their brightness,) Are yet of no diviner origin, No purer essence, than the one that burns, Like an untended watch-fire, on the ridge Of some dark mountain; or than those which seem |