Part 17

... towards ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 343: 1845.

An animated eye; and thoughts were mine Which this ejaculation clothed in words-- 1814.

A kindling eye;--poetic feelings rushed Into my bosom, whence these words broke forth: 1827. ]

[Footnote 344: 1845.

... exclaim aloud Be this continued so from day to day, Nor let it have an end from month to month!" 1814.

'Be this continued so from day to day, Nor let the fierce commotion have an end, Ruinous though it be, from month to month!'" 1827.

May this wild uproar last from day to day Nor let from month to month the fierce commotion, Ruinous though it be, abate its rage. C. ]

[Footnote 345: 1827.

Shall feel the stirrings of them late and long; 1814. ]

[Footnote 346: 1827.

... spots[EP] ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 347: 1827.

... expressed As by a duplicate, at least set forth With brotherly resemblance.... 1814. ]

[Footnote 348: 1836.

... by ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 349: 1836.

... endued 1814. ]

[Footnote 350: 1836.

The Sultan hides within ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 351: 1836.

... raised? 1814. ]

[Footnote 352: 1845.

A not unwholesome food, and earth and air Supply his morbid humour with delight. 1814.

Food not unwholesome; earth and air correct His morbid humour, with delight supplied. 1836. ]

[Footnote 353: 1836.

And shady groves, for recreation framed: 1814. ]

[Footnote 354: 1827.

This rather would I do ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 355: 1836.

Or if the Mind turn inward 'tis perplexed, Lost in a gloom of uninspired research; 1814. ]

[Footnote 356: 1845.

... restlessly revolves, Yet nowhere finds the cheering light of truth. 1814.

Rests not but on its axis, evermore Revolving, nowhere finds the light of truth. C.

Seeks, yet can nowhere find the light of truth. C. ]

[Footnote 357: 1836.

He heard, upon the wind, ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 358: 1836.

... these pure Heights 1814. ]

[Footnote 359: 1827.

In ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 360: 1827.

The ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 361: 1827.

... brows-- 1814. ]

[Footnote 362: 1827.

... and, from that Height Pure and serene, the Godhead overlook 1814. ]

[Footnote 363: 1836.

... of variegated sky, 1814. ]

[Footnote 364: 1836.

... did his hand bestow 1814. ]

[Footnote 365: 1836.

... denials 1814. ]

[Footnote 366: 1845.

"And moisten all day long ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 367: 1827.

There shall be,--seen, and heard, and felt, and known, And recognized,--existence unexposed 1814. ]

[Footnote 368: 1827.

Of much exalted good that may attend Upon the very humblest state.-- ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 369: 1836.

... who ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 370: 1836.

... and adapt His round ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 371: 1827.

... a Man like this 1814. ]

[Footnote 372: 1827.

They come and go, appear and disappear; 1814.

... disappear'd, MS. ]

[Footnote 373: 1845.

Among wild mountains and unpeopled heaths, 1814.

Among wild hills, and thinly-peopled shores, C. ]

[Footnote 374: 1814.

Once more to distant ages of the world Let us revert and contemplate the face, That face which rural solitude might wear To the unenlightened sons of pagan Greece. C.

Which Nature in her solitudes might wear. C. ]

[Footnote 375: 1836.

... lifting up his eyes Towards the crescent Moon, ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 376: 1814.

Helped by the reflection of her own fair face, Or rather say the lover at her side, Looking with earnest eyes into the depth Of a still lake amid the glimmering growth Of plants that there were nourished. C.

Helped by reflection of her own fair face, Or, if not she, the lover at her side, Some beautiful inhabitant who there Might dwell in calm security unknown To mortal credence. Hence the green haired brood. C. ]

[Footnote 377: 1827.

... heavens, 1814. ]

[Footnote 378: 1845.

No apter Strain could have been chosen: I marked 1814.

As this apt strain proceeded, I could mark 1827. ]

[Footnote 379: 1827.

... on ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 380: 1836.

Who fled to caves, and woods, and naked rocks 1814. ]

[Footnote 381: 1845.

In caves, and woods, and under dismal rocks, Deprived of shelter, covering, fire, and food; 1814.

In woods, and dwell beneath impending rocks Ill-sheltered, and oft wanting fire and food; 1836. ]

[Footnote 382: 1827.

With which the desarts rang ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 383: 1836.

... Souls-- 1814. ]

[Footnote 384: 1827.

... could He design, Or will his rites and services permit, That this ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 385: 1827.

... which ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 386: 1836.

... end ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 387: 1827.

... when the human soul Is ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 388: 1827.

... doth ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 389: 1840.

His tottering Body was oppressed with flowers; Far less becoming ornaments than those With which Spring often decks a mouldering Tree! 1814.

His tottering Body was with wreaths of flowers Opprest, far less becoming ornaments Than Spring oft twines about a mouldering Tree; 1827. ]

[Footnote 390: 1827.

... framed, ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 391: 1845.

... better Lights and Guides than these-- 1814. ]

[Footnote 392: 1827.

... is ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 393: 1827.

... and thereby can live, 1814. ]

[Footnote 394: 1836.

... disconsolate and black, 1814. ]

[Footnote 395: 1836.

On stormy waters, in a little Boat 1814. ]

[Footnote 396: 1827.

In rueful tone, With some impatience in his mien he spake; And this reply was given.-- 1814. ]

[Footnote 397: 1827.

--For Him, to whom I speak, an easy road 1814.

Then do not droop, a hopeful road for you. MS. ]

[Footnote 398: 1814.

And while in silence hushed ... C. ]

[Footnote 399: 1845.

Brightened with joy; for murmurings from within Were heard,--sonorous cadences! whereby, To his belief, the Monitor expressed 1814. ]

[Footnote 400: 1827.

... the ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 401: 1827.

And ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 402: 1836.

Doth know and love ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 403: 1827.

... of absent Things, Convoked by knowledge; and for his delight Still ready to obey the gentle call. Trust me, ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 404: 1827.

For them shall all things speak of Man, they read Their duties in all forms; ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 405: 1827.

Departing not, they shall at length obtain ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 406: 1836.

Unswerving shall we move, as if impelled 1814. ]

[Footnote 407: 1845.

... Whate'er we see, Whate'er we feel, by agency direct Or indirect shall tend to feed and nurse Our faculties, shall fix in calmer seats Of moral strength, and raise to loftier heights Of love divine, our intellectual Soul." 1814.

Whate'er we feel, shall tend to feed and nurse, By agency direct or indirect, Our faculties, shall fix in calmer seats Of moral strength, and raise to loftier heights Of divine love, ... 1836.

... Whate'er we see Or feel shall tend to quicken and refine The humbler functions of corporeal sense. C.

... or refine The humblest ... MS. ]

[Footnote 408: 1827.

... of the assembled Tribes, 1814. ]

[Footnote 409: 1836.

... shall not pass away; For they sank into me-- ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 410: 1836.

... language ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 411: 1836.

Upon ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 412: 1827.

... which ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 413: 1827.

... forth in transport ran 1814. ]

[Footnote 414: 1845.

... aspect may be read A plain assurance ... 1814. ]

[Footnote 415: 1845.

... slept, 1814. ]

[Footnote 416: Added in C.

Till every thought as gently as a flower, That shuts its eyes at close of every day Had folded up itself in dreamless sleep.[FY] ]

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote DW: In January 1849, the year before Wordsworth's death, he was asked by Mr. Francis C. Yarnall of Philadelphia for his autograph, for a lady in America; and, in reply, he wrote the four lines, beginning

Soul of our Souls, and safeguard of the world!

They were doubtless suggested to him at the time by the death of his own daughter. See Mr. Yarnall's paper on "Wordsworth's Influence in America," in the _Transactions of the Wordsworth Society_, No. v.--ED.]

[Footnote DX: With this whole passage compare the teaching of Kant's three _Kritiken_.--ED.]

[Footnote DY: Compare the _Ode, Intimations of Immortality_--

Trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home.

ED.]

[Footnote DZ: Compare book i. l. 200.--ED.]

[Footnote EA: Compare book i. ll. 215-16.--ED.]

[Footnote EB: Compare _Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey_, ll. 83-85 (vol. ii. p. 54)--

That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. ED. ]

[Footnote EC: See Matthew Sylvester's _Reliquiæ Baxterianæ_, _or the Life of Richard Baxter_, book i. part i. l. 213, p. 32: "To despise earth is easy to me; but not so easy to be acquainted and conversant in Heaven. I have nothing in this world which I could not easily let go: but to get satisfying apprehension of the other world is the great and grievous difficulty."

See also Wordsworth's note, p. 387.--ED.]

[Footnote ED: See Wordsworth's note, p. 387.--ED.]

[Footnote EE: Compare Milton's _Ode on the Nativity_, l. 119.--ED.]

[Footnote EF: St. Matt. xi. 19.--ED.]

[Footnote EG: See Wordsworth's note, p. 387.--ED.]

[Footnote EH: Samuel Daniel; from his poem, _To the Lady Margaret, Countess of Cumberland_. In his note Wordsworth says, "The two last lines printed in italics, are by him" (_i.e._ Daniel) "translated from Seneca." The passage is: "O quam contempta res est homo, nisi supra humana surrexerit" (_Natur. quaest._ lib. i. praef. 4). The discovery of this passage cost the late Bishop of St. Andrews several long days' hunting through Seneca's works. He wrote me afterwards: "The passage has nothing to do with moral elevation, the next words are 'quam diu cum affectibus colluctamur quid magnifici facimus.'"

The following occurs in _The Soul's Conflict_, by Richard Sibbes (1635), ch. ix.--"We see likewise hence a necessity of having something in the soul above itself. It must be partaker of a diviner nature than itself; otherwise, when the most refined part of our souls, the very spirit of our minds, is out of frame, what shall bring it in again?" See also the extract from Bacon's Essay, XVI., prefixed to _The White Doe of Rylstone_ (vol. iv. p. 105).--ED.]

[Footnote EI: The fact of the eagle having once haunted the Cumbrian and Westmoreland valleys is proved by the number of rocks, crags, etc., that are named from it.--ED.]

[Footnote EJ: The following occurs in the Fenwick note to the lines addressed _To Joanna_ in the "Poems on the naming of Places" (vol. ii. p. 157): "The effect of the reverberation of voices in some parts of the mountains is very striking. There is, in _The Excursion_, an allusion to the bleat of a lamb thus re-echoed, and described without any exaggeration, as I heard it, on the side of Stickle Tarn, from the precipice that stretches on to Langdale Pikes." The "precipice" referred to is Pavy Ark.--ED.]

[Footnote EK: There are many ant-hills in this district of Westmoreland. Note that the description here is of the effect of a lake seen from above, looking down on it.--ED.]

[Footnote EL: The fieldfares have a habit of settling together, and sitting perfectly still, till they are disturbed; when they fly off, and settling again, sit silently as before.--ED.]

[Footnote EM: Blea Tarn.--ED.]

[Footnote EN: Compare "Rules and Lessons" in Henry Vaughan's _Silex Scintillans_.--ED.]

[Footnote EO: The heights of Blake Rigg and Lingmoor.--ED.]

[Footnote EP: Possibly a misprint in the editions of 1814 and 1820.--ED.]

[Footnote EQ: Compare the _Poet's Epitaph_ (vol. ii. p. 75).--ED.]

[Footnote ER: Compare Genesis iii. 8.--ED.]

[Footnote ES: Genesis xviii. 1, 2.--ED.]

[Footnote ET: Genesis iii. 24.--ED.]

[Footnote EU: Genesis iii. 16, 17.--ED.]

[Footnote EV: Exodus vi. 3.--ED.]

[Footnote EW: Exodus xxxiii. 9; xxxiv. 5.--ED.]

[Footnote EX: Exodus xxxvii. 1; Hebrews ix. 4.--ED.]

[Footnote EY: Exodus xxv. 22.--ED.]

[Footnote EZ: Exodus xv. 25; xvi. 4, etc. etc.--ED.]

[Footnote FA: Exodus vii.-xi.--ED.]

[Footnote FB: The ancient Persian religion was nature worship.--ED.]

[Footnote FC: Compare _Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey_, II. 100-102 (vol. ii. p. 55)--

A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. ED. ]

[Footnote FD: Herodotus thus describes the temple of Belus:--"... A square enclosure two furlongs each way, with gates of solid brass; which were also remaining in my time. In the middle of the precinct there was a tower of solid masonry, a furlong in length and breadth, upon which was raised a second tower, and on that a third, and so up to eight. The ascent to the top is on the outside, by a path which winds round all the towers. When one is about half way up, one finds a resting place and seats, where persons are wont to sit some time in their way to the summit. On the topmost tower there is a spacious Temple, and inside the Temple stands a couch of unusual size, richly adorned, with a golden table by its side. There is no statue of any kind set up in the place.... The Chaldeans, the priests of this God, declare--but I, for my part, do not credit it--that the God comes down nightly into this chamber and sleeps upon the couch."--Herodotus, i. 181. See Rawlinson's version, vol. i. pp. 319, 320. Compare also Josephus, _Ant. Jud._ x. 11, and Strabo, 16.--ED.]

[Footnote FE: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury--the only planets known to the ancients, the Earth not being included.--ED.]

[Footnote FF: The reference here is still apparently to the "planetary Five," which are _all_ described as "radiant Mercuries" (although one of them was Mercury), because they all--

seemed to move Carrying through ether, in perpetual round, Decrees and resolutions of the Gods; And, by their aspects, signifying works Of dim futurity.

This astrological allusion makes it clear that the reference is to the supposed "planetary influence," and to the movements of these bodies--controlled by the gods--with which the fate of mortals was believed to be upbound. For an account of the Gods of the Five Planets, see _Chaldean Magic_, by François Lenormant, pp. 26 and 118.--ED.]

[Footnote FG: Compare _Lycidas_, 1. 154--

Ay me! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas,

and note that Charles Lamb, who was familiar with _The Excursion_, quotes the above line ("Distant Correspondents") thus--

Aye me! while thee the seas and sounding shores. ED. ]

[Footnote FH: The strolling Greek minstrels from Homer onwards, predecessors of the Troubadours.--ED.]

[Footnote FI: The reference is doubtless to Pausanias, i. 37, 3. "Before you cross the Cephisus, there is the monument of Theodorus, who excelled all his contemporaries as an actor in tragedy; and near to the river, there are [two] statues, one of Mnesimache, another of her son, in the act of cutting off his hair [over the stream and presenting it] as a votive offering to the Cephisus." See Note D in the Appendix to this volume, p. 396.--ED.]

[Footnote FJ: Compare _King Henry VI._, Part III. act ii. scene v. ll. 23-35--

To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run. ED. ]

[Footnote FK: Apollo.--ED.]

[Footnote FL: Diana.--ED.]

[Footnote FM: The ναἴάδες (water-nymphs) and ὁρειάδες (mountain-nymphs), with others of the meadows woods and dales, sprung from the fertile imagination of the Greeks. Wordsworth's explanation of the origin of these myths from natural causes is not peculiar to him, although his lines are a _locus classicus_ on the subject; but his explanation of the "lurking Satyrs," as due to the sight of the horns of the deer, or the goats, in the woods, is probably his own.--ED.]

[Footnote FN: St. Fillan. There were two Scottish saints of that name. The first, and most famous, the particulars of whose life are recorded in the Breviary of Aberdeen, Felanus, or Fœlanus, Fælan, Fillanus, Filane, or Phillane, the son of Kentigern. In Perthshire, the scene of his labours, a river and a strath are called after him, and a Church dedicated to him. He was associated with the battle of Bannockburn. (See _Kalendars of Scottish Saints_, by A. P. Forbes, Bishop of Brechin.)--ED.]

[Footnote FO: For the legendary History of St. Giles see the Breviary of the Roman Church. (It has been translated recently by the Marquis of Bute.) Dr. Cameron Lees, minister of St. Giles' Cathedral Church, Edinburgh, sends me the following notice of the Saint:--"How St. Giles became the patron Saint of Edinburgh is not known. His 'hind' is upon the arms of the city.[FQ] An arm bone of St. Giles was one of the chief treasures of the church. It was brought from France by Preston of Gorton, who procured it by the 'assistance of the King of France.' This relic was contained in a richly jewelled shrine, and carried through Edinburgh in procession on the Saint's day, the 1st September. An account of this procession is given by Sir D. Lindsay and by Knox. The only other church in Scotland under the dedication of St. Giles was at Elgin."--ED.]

[Footnote FP: Now happily accomplished through the labour and the munificence of the late Dr. Chambers.--ED.]

[Footnote FQ: For reference to the "Hind," see the Breviary.--ED.]

[Footnote FR: Compare the _Poet's Epitaph_ (vol. ii. p. 75).--ED.]

[Footnote FS: Voltaire.--ED.]

[Footnote FT: In his eighty-fourth year, Voltaire went up to Paris from Ferney in Switzerland (where he had lived for twenty years), and amid the tumultuous enthusiasm of the Parisians, he was crowned at the Comédie Française, as the Athenian poets used to be. "The Court of the Louvre, vast as it is, was full of people waiting for him. As soon as his notable vehicle came in sight, the cry arose, _Le voilà!_ The Savoyards, the apple-women, all the rabble of the quarter had assembled there, and the acclamations _Vive Voltaire!_ resounded as if they would never end.... There was no end till he placed himself on the front seat, beside the ladies. Then rose a cry _La Couronne!_ and Brizard, the actor, came and put the garland on his head. _Ah Dieu! vous voulez donc me faire mourir?_ cried M. de Voltaire, weeping with joy, and resisting the honour.... The Prince de Beauvan, seizing the laurel, replaced it on the head of our Sophocles, who could refuse no longer." (_Memoires sur Voltaire_, par Longchamp et Wagnière.)--ED.]

[Footnote FU: Compare Walter Savage Landor, _Gebir_, book i. l. 159--

But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the Sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one and it awakens, then apply Its polish'd lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.

Compare also the Fenwick note to the _Evening Voluntary_, beginning--

What mischief cleaves ED. ]

[Footnote FV: The nightingale is not heard farther north than the Trent valley, and there are no woodlarks in the Lake country, as hawks are numerous.--ED.]

[Footnote FW: See note FV on previous page.]

[Footnote FX: The following occurs in Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, July 27, 1800:--"After tea we rowed down to Loughrigg Fell, visited the white foxglove, gathered wild strawberries, and walked up to view Rydale. We lay a long time looking at the lake; the shores all dim with the scorching sun. The ferns were turning yellow, that is, here and there one was quite turned. We walked round by Benson's wood home. The lake was now most still, and reflected the beautiful yellow and blue and purple and grey colours of the sky. We heard a strange sound in the Bainriggs wood, as we were floating on the water: it _seemed_ in the wood, but it must have been above it, for presently we saw a raven very high above us. It called out, and the dome of the sky seemed to echo the sound. It called again and again as it flew onwards, and the mountains gave back the sound, seeming as if from their centre; a musical bell-like answering to the bird's hoarse voice. We heard both the call of the bird, and the echo, after we could see him no longer."

Compare the Fenwick note to the _Evening Voluntary_ (1834), beginning--

The leaves that rustled on this oak-crowned hill. ED. ]

Book Fifth

THE PASTOR

ARGUMENT