Monday 14 June 2010

Sounding Cataract



Time for some verse

For nature then
(The coarser pleasures of my boyish days,
And their glad animal movements all gone by)
To me was all in all.--I cannot paint
What then I was. The sounding cataract
Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock,
The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,
Their colours and their forms, were then to me
An appetite; a feeling and a love,
That had no need of a remoter charm,
By thought supplied, nor any interest
Unborrowed from the eye.--That time is past,
And all its aching joys are now no more,


If you think there's anything to add, Wordsworth wrote much more in his Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey.

1 comment:

Mark Fisher said...

A touch of wildness in the landscape - a beautiful location.