...is constrained to teach his generation this very lesson :— " Think you, mid all this mighty sum uf things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we must still be seeking Í Nor less I deem that there are powers, Which of themselves our minds impress ; And we can feed this...

...impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself...ask not wherefore, here, alone, Conversing as I may, I sit upon this old grey stone, And dream my time away.' (1793.) THE TABLES TURNED. (An Evening Scene...

...impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. "Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself...ask not wherefore, here, alone, Conversing as I may, I sit upon this old gray stone, And dream my time away. " THE TABLES TURNED ; AN EVENING SCENE ON THE...

...impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. "Think yon, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself...ask not wherefore, here, alone, Conversing as I may, I sit upon this old grey stone, And dream my time away." „. THE TABLES TURNED. An evening scene on...

...wait for the solemn and mysterious access of the Divine grace. " Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we must still be seeking." The " wise passiveness " which Wordsworth commends in these lines has been made a religious ideal by...

...impress ; That we can feed this mind of ours In a wise passiveness. Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself...ask not wherefore, here, alone, Conversing as I may, I sit upon this old grey stone, And dream my time away." THE TABLES TURNED. AN EVENING SCENE ON THE...

...state of mind of the old man in Wordsworth's ballad, who says — Think you, mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we must still be seeking? That Homer had an eye for the sublime features of earth, the nobler forms of animal life, and phenomena...

..."argument," but offers complication rather than clarification: "Think you, mid all this mighty sum of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we must still be seeking?" [25-28] In the earlier stanza, the problem was to find grounds for the assertion that "there are powers...

...nature by the self. For example, here Wordsworth echoes Dogen: Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we must still be seeking? 6 Openness to the myriad things follows what George Sessions, in his discussion of deep ecology, calls...

...restless consciousness for which being is always doing and acting: Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum Of things for ever speaking, That nothing of itself will come, But we must still be seeking? ("Expostulation and Reply") In time of war, of course, the meditative stance that is willing to let...