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...select for the same purpose a passage from Wordsworth's Recluse, in which he expressly states that " By words Which speak of nothing more than what we...and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures. . . . Such grateful taunts forgoing, if I oft Must turn elsewhere,—to travel near the tribes And...

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...passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day. 55 I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of...we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep 60 Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures; while my voice proclaims (And the progressive...

...Nature. What Wordsworth desires to write is "the spousal verse" in celebration of this fulfillment: and, by words Which speak of nothing more than what...and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures. This parallels Blake's singing in Jerusalem: Of the sleep of Ulro! and of the passage through Eternal...

...unmistakable by expanding upon it with pomp and circumstance. "I, long before the blissful hour arrives,/ Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse/ Of this great consummation. ..." The plot envisioned by the aid of the "prophetic Spirit," then, will end in the marriage of the...

...passion, shall fìnd these A simple produce of the common day. I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant in lonely peace the spousal verse Of this great consummation. Wordsworth goes on to comment in that great passage how exquisitely the external world is fitted to...

...departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was ? . . . — I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation. The Atlantis theme is in many other romantic myths : in the Glaucus episode of Endymion and in De Quincey's...

...Wordsworth als das Thema seiner Dichtung bezeichnet: — I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of...Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arose the sensual from their sleep Of Death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures; while...

...passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day. —I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation: 10 The Prospectus to The Excursion quoted above is a kind of prothalamion, a song preliminary to a...