...returns from his studies in Cambridge and the artificial, superficial life he has lived there: I (...) had glimmering views How life pervades the undecaying...immortal soul with godlike power Informs, creates, and thaws the deepest sleep That time can lay upon her. (Np.132 11.152 and 154-158) Continuing this...

...The balance, and with firm hand weighed myself. — Of that external scene which round me lay, 160 Little, in this abstraction, did I see ; Remembered...immortal soul with God-like power Informs, creates, and thaws the deepest sleep That time can lay upon her ; how on earth, Man, if he do but live within...

...weighed myself. — Ofthat external scene which round me lay, Little, in this abstraction, did I sec ; Remembered less ; but I had inward hopes And swellings...promises, had glimmering views How life pervades the undccaying mind ; How the immortal soul with God-like power Informs, creates, and thaws the deepest...

...religious spirit dormant for some time, but it cannot kill it out entirely. With the coming of spring "The immortal soul with Godlike power Informs, creates,...thaws the deepest sleep That time can lay upon her. And the awakening of the religious spirit today is shown in a steadily growing literature voicing disillusionment...

...independently of external nature we have . . . hopes and peace And swelling of the spirit, . . . . . . glimmering views How Life pervades the undecaying...immortal Soul with God-like power Informs, creates, and thaws the deepest sleep That time can lay upon her; how on earth, Man, if he do but live within...