...has alwa; s loved the spring. Now Wordsworth helps her to a deeper love of the earth's awakening : " Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And...now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill ; The plowboy is whooping — anon — anon ! There's joy in the mountains; There's life in the fountains;...

...gone beyond recall. We feel this lack in Wordsworth all the more keenly if we compare such verses as " Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill," with Goethe's exquisite Ueber alien Gipfeln ist Ruh, in which the lines (as if shaken down by a momentary...

...terrace, with the white dots not far below the sky-line, which tell of its famous " cattle." There " They are grazing, their heads never raising — There are forty feeding like one," and we have to discard at the first glance every wildbull-thought for Wordsworth's milder rhymes. Our...

...small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing,...The plough-boy is whooping anon, anon. There's joy in the mountains ; There's life in the fountains ; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing ;...

...small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest ike one aghast, And, catching up his armes, straight...to the noiae forth past. There by th' uncertaine ! There 's joy on the mountains ; There 's life in the fountains ; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky...

...small birds twitter The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing,...defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill Ou the top of the bare hill ; The ploughboy is whooping— anon- -anon? There's joy on the mountains...

...small hirds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps m the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing....heads never raising ; There are forty feeding like one I Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the hare hill;...

...birds twitter, The lake doth glitter. The green field bleeps in the sun : The oldest and youngest Arc at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing. Their heads never raising ; There arc forty feeding like one ! Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On...

...small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest ; The cattle are grazing,...— anon — anon ! There's joy on the mountains, There 's life in the fountains ; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing ; The rain is over and...

...small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter. The green fields sleep in the sun ; The oldest and youngest Are at work with the strongest; The cattle are grazing,...The plough-boy is whooping anon, anon. There's joy in the mountains, There's life in the fountains ; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing ; The...