SpotsOfTime

By SpotsOfTime

Wire in the blood

... to mark William Wordsworth's birthday (7/4/1770) here are the last lines of the Intimations Ode ...

The clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober colouring from an eye
That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality;
Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

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