...creeds and fainting ideals, turns for relief to the refreshing power of nature. He exalts Wordsworth, for — " He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool, flowery lap of earth." Tennyson, unequalled in his power of creating beautiful visions, and at the same time cherishing a...

...when the age had bound Our souls in its benumbing round ; He spoke, and loosed our hearts in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery...closely furled, The freshness of the early world. Ah ! since dark days still bring to light Man's prudence and man's fiery might, Time may restore us...

...when the age had bound Our souls in its benumbing round ; He spoke, and loosed our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery...that had long been dead, Spirits dried up and closely furl'd, The freshness of the early world. Ah! since dark days still bring to light Alan's prudence...

...us when the age had bound Our souls in its benumbing round; He spoke, and loosed our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery...again; Our foreheads felt the wind and rain. Our youth return'd; for there was shed On spirits that had long been dead, Spirits dried up and closely furl'd,...

...from us, arid we had ease;' The smiles were round us, and the breeze On the cool flowery lap of earth, Went o'er the sun-lit fields again ; Our foreheads felt the wind and rain. Our youth return'd ; for there was shed On spirits that had long been dead, i Spirits dried up and closely furl'd,...

...in a later age, of reviving youthful sentiment in natures hardened, worn, benumbed ; of shedding On spirits dried up and closely furled The freshness of the early world, lifted him at once to the lofty pedestal on which the homage of successive ages has maintained him...

...us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth, Smiles broke from us and we had ease ; 5° The hills were round us, and the breeze Went o'er...closely furled, The freshness of the early world. Ah ! since dark days still bring to light Man's prudence and man's fiery might, Time may restore us...

...made it possible for the gospel of humanity to be heard again. Thus Nature spoke. The work was done. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth. In Wordsworth's pages we breathe again the air of Palestine, when the world was young. The singleness...

...us when the age had bound Our souls in its benumbing round; He spoke, and loosed our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery...closely furled, The freshness of the early world. (40-57) Europe, Arnold wrote, might again be supplied with examples of Goethe's "sage mind" and "Byron's...

...us when the age had bound Our souls in its benumbing round; He spoke, and loosed our heart in tears. He laid us as we lay at birth On the cool flowery lap of earth. . . . . . . where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power? (Memorial Verses)...