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NATURE IN THE NATURE POETS. 
the poet's deep moral insight at once translates the peaceful 
sweep of the stream into the language of the soul : 
" And may thy poet, cloud-born stream ! be free — 
The sweets of earth contentedly resigned, 
And each tumultuous working left behind 
A.t seemly distance — to advance like thee. 
Prepared, in peace of heart, in calm of mind 
And soul, to mingle with eternity." 
Then follows the noble concluding sonnet, than which that 
fascinating poetic form has rarely, if ever, in my judgment, 
reached a higher level. 
The second instance is in the well-known lines on revisit- 
ing the Wye, above Tintern Abbey. In exquisite blank 
verse, with great variety of pause and melodious intonation, 
he first welcomes and describes the landscape thus seen once 
more when 
"Five years have pass'd; five summers, with the length 
Of five long winters ! and again I hear 
These waters, rolling from their mountain springs 
"With a soft inland murmur." 
And after passing through the chief x^oints of the well-loved 
sight, he comes in his true characteristic refrain to the touch 
of human interest ; he beholds the wreaths of smoke 
" Sent up, in silence from among the trees ! 
With some uncertain notice, as might seem 
Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods. 
Or of some hermit's cave, where by his fire 
The hermit sits alone." 
He then recalls how such sights and sounds have been with 
him in memory during absence from them. He has owed 
them " sweet sensations, feelings of unremembered pleasure, 
and 
That blessed mood 
In which the burden of the mystery 
Of all this unintelligible world 
