...philosophical poet's revelation concerning the individual spirit of man : — ' The soul that rises in us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar : . . . . Heaven lies about us in our infancy ! ' But he appears to forget that the theory thus...

...REVELATION OF A PREVIOUS LIFE. ' Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises in us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar." WORDSWOHTH. THE death of a lady, in a foreign land, leaves me at liberty to narrate the circumstances...

...sad music of humanity,' Wordsworth, resound : ' OUR birth is but a sleep end a forgetting : The soul that rises with us, our life's star Has had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come,...

...at once said "This maiden shall be my queen, and Esther shall be her name." " The soul that rises in us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. Heaven lies about us in our infancy." 3. In the discovery of the conspiracy and the entering...

...at once said "This maiden shall be my queen, and Esther shall be her name." " The soul that rises in us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. Heaven lies about us in our infancy." 3. In the discovery of the conspiracy and the entering...

...doctrine of the Platonists, that " Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting ; The soul that rises in us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar." It was Henry More's opinion that the pre-existence of the soul was a tenet for which there are many plausible...

...preach its last dark sermon from the gallows. Who knows ? No one ; least of all the innocent babe—its chief portion of life given to sleep ; its little...can to make her foster child" learn the first of her laws—self-preservation, selfknowledge, and first of all, self-existence. As a child grows up he differs...

...promise in opening heavens. There has been " a sleep and a forgetting," and "The soul that riseth in us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting And cometh from afar" — and now again it is youthful — possesses new energies — has a new race to run. Youth...

...instinctive and proleptic yearnings for its return. "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar, Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory, do we...

...that fine poem where he says — Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises in us, our life's star, Has had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar. With all respect for the doctrine of a previous existence, it appears to us that the sensation...