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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE ALFOXDEN NOTEBOOK (1): 3, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Of unknown modes of being which on earth
Last Line: Did ebb and flow with a strange mystery.
First Line: Of unknown modes of being which on earth
Last Line: Did ebb and flow with a strange mystery.
Of unknown modes of being which on earth,
Or in the heavens, or in the heavens and earth
Exist by mighty combinations, bound
Together by a link, and with a soul
Which makes all one.
To gaze
On that green hill and on those scattered trees
And feel a pleasant consciousness of life
In the impression of that loveliness
Until the sweet sensation called the mind
Into itself, by image from without
Unvisited, and all her reflex powers
Wrapped in a still dream of forgetfulness.
I lived without knowledge that I lived
Then by those beauteous forms brought back again
To lose myself again as if my life
Did ebb and flow with a strange mystery.
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