...whence this wonderful scene arose. "Oh, then what soul was his, when on the tops Of the high mountains he beheld the sun Rise up and bathe the world in light; — he look'd — Ocean and earth, — the solid frame of earth And ocean liquid mass, beneath him lay In...

...Leicester. " It drew a confession of faith from Voltaire ; it pointed a moral to the Christian poet — " ' He beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in...lay Beneath him : — Far and wide the clouds were touch'd, And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love. Oh, then how beautiful, how bright,...

...example, I quote one passage in which the poet describes the consecrating effects of early dawn : — " What soul was his when from the naked top Of some...the sun Rise up and bathe the world in light ! He look'd — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness...

...till the later day of youth. •0 then what soul was his, when, on the tops Of the high mountains, he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light ! He look'd — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness...

...means, has taught To feel intensely, cannot but receive. Such was the Boy — but for the growing Youth What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some...headland, he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world HI light ! He looked — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth 201 And ocean's liquid mass, in...

...it is that perhaps our first perception of what adoration might be is learnt under Nature's spell : He looked : Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth...And ocean's liquid mass, in gladness lay Beneath him : Sound needed none Nor any voice of joy : his spirit drank The spectacle ; sensation, soul, and form...

...from the naked top Of some bold headland, he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light I He looked — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness and deep joy ; his spirit drank The spectacle : sensation, soul, and form...

...till the later day of youth. Oh, then, what soul was his, when, on the tops Of the high mountains, he beheld the sun Rise up, and bathe the world in light ! He look 'd — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's liquid mass, beneath him lay In gladness...

...the method will be clearer. There is the rapture of Wordsworth's vision (Excursion, i. 201-13) — Ocean and earth, the solid frame of earth And ocean's...gladness lay Beneath him : — Far and wide the clouds wore touched, And in their silent faces could he read Unutterable love. Sound needed none, Nor any...

...possible, because just as hard, to leave business for God and to come back to it, afterwards, through Him. What soul was his, when, from the naked top Of some...beheld the sun Rise up and bathe the world in light I . . . . . . Far and wide the clouds were touched, And in their silent faces could be read Unutterable...