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However, nine lines in to this extract he reflects that this time of childhood communion with Nature “is past” and he will no longer experience “its aching joys” and “dizzy raptures”. His response to the mountains, woods and rocks is described quite simply as a “love” that required no further thought or analysis. His childhood connection with nature is recalled as instinctive, unselfconscious and extremely intense. This extract from one of Wordsworth’s most famous poems is very much about memory and his relationship with nature. The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, Of eye, and ear,- both what they half create,Īnd what perceive well pleased to recognise Therefore am I stillįrom this green earth of all the mighty world Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,Īnd the blue sky, and in the mind of man:Īll thinking things, all objects of all thought,Īnd rolls through all things. Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power Of thoughtless youth but hearing oftentimes Have followed for such loss, I would believe,

Unborrowed from the eye.- That time is past,įaint I, nor mourn nor murmur: other gifts Their colours and their forms, were then to me The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, Only lines 77-113 should be recited, as shown below

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The full title of this poem is ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour July 13, 1798′.