Voices of nature : a sequel to Praise of a single life . LONDONGEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, Ltd. NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO. A/ ^ V 4» The world is too much with us ; late and soon,Getting and spending-, we lay waste our powers :Little we see in Nature that is ours ;We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon !This Sea, that bares her bosom to the moon ;The winds that will be howling at all hours,And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers ;For this, for everything, we are out of tune ;It moves us not.—Great God ! Id rather beA Pagan suckled in a creed outworn ;So might I, standing on this ple
Voices of nature : a sequel to Praise of a single life . LONDONGEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, Ltd. NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO. A/ ^ V 4» The world is too much with us ; late and soon,Getting and spending-, we lay waste our powers :Little we see in Nature that is ours ;We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon !This Sea, that bares her bosom to the moon ;The winds that will be howling at all hours,And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers ;For this, for everything, we are out of tune ;It moves us not.—Great God ! Id rather beA Pagan suckled in a creed outworn ;So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn ;Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea ;Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. Wordsworth. PREFACE A S explained in the preface to Praise of aSimple Life^ the contents of this little bookwere to have formed, not a sequel, but the latterportion of an anthology of passages from theearliest to the latest times, extolling that eternaldream of mankind, a life according to the simplvoicesofnaturese00bake
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