...poem which I have heard repeated ; * My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirr'd, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. * Probably Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads had not as yet been published. Thus fares it still in our decay...

...delightful day, he " cannot choose but think how oft' a vigorous man, he lay beside that fountain's brink." My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly...sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.* While Wordsworth was labouring, together with his Quaker friend, Thomas Wilkinson, in the said Friend's...

...men Has oftener left me mourning. or in a still higher strain the six beautiful quatrains, page 134. Thus fares it still in our decay: And yet the wiser...takes away Than what it leaves behind. The Blackbird in the summer trees, The Lark upon the hill, Let loose their carols when they please, Are quiet when...

...the same profound teacher moralises thus, in the poem called the Fountain, on the life of man : — My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly...for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind. These are the reflections of one who has studied the mind of man as reverently and patiently as the...

...which, however familiar, can never be read without emotion — My eyes are dim with childish tears, Jly heart is idly stirred ; For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I hoard. And the strangely beautiful address to the Cuckoo might be made into a text for a prolonged...

...I lay Beside this Fountain's brink. My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirr'd. For the same sound is in my ears, Which in those days I heard. The concern is far from simply with lost youth. For the gnomically enigmatic stanzas which follow are...

...the fountain creature of "The Two April Mornings," the figure of the lost Emma, and his own youth: "for the same sound is in my ears / Which in those days I heard." The fountain knows no rest, and with its welling energy and its affirmation of life coming to be, of...

...London with its own black wreath, (1. 29-30) EBEV; FaBoRV; FiP; NOBE; NoP; OAEL-2; SCV The Fountain 19 ly pipers; And, whether they pipe us free, from rats or from mice, If we've pro (1. 34-36) 20 We wear a face of joy, because We have been glad of yore. (1. 47^8) EnRP; GTBS; GTBS-P;...

...to remember images from the past. Senile forgetfulness is preferable. "The wiser mind," he tells us, "Mourns less for what age takes away / Than what it leaves behind." He then paints a grim picture of people, "glad no more," who "wear a face of joy, because / [they]...

...Wordsworth, with dramatic propriety, puts into the mouth of Matthew the paradoxical assertion that " the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind." Now, this is untrue as a general proposition, though true of the particular case to which Matthew afterwards...