Has carried far into his heart the voice
Of mountain torrents; or the visible scene
Would enter unawares into his mind,
With all its solemn imagery, its rocks,
Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received
Into the bosom of the steady lake."
_The Prelude_, v. 379 f.



ELEGIAC STANZAS

COMPOSED 1805: PUBLISHED 1807.

Further references to John Wordsworth will be found in the following
poems:--_To the Daisy_ ("Sweet Flower"), _Elegiac Verses in Memory of My
Brother_, _When to the Attractions of the Busy World_, _The Brothers_,
and _The Happy Warrior_.

With lines 33-40, and 57-60, compare the _Intimations of Immortality_,
ll. 176-187:--

"What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight,
Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be;