...until the day Shows new cares upon thy way; Watchful is the Father's eye ! Good night ! Car of fait!. I HAVE seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell : To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intensely ; — and his countenance...

...the inferior faculty that moulds, With her minute and speculative pains, Opinion, ever changing! —- I have seen A curious Child, who dwelt upon a tract...inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of her smooth-lipped Shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance...

...By the inferior Faculty that moulds, With her minute and speculative pains, Opinion, ever changing! I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith ; and there are times,...

..."Excursion" when I think of the true attitude to the slowly evolving history of man. "I have seen [he says] A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland...were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed •L'fysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the Universe itself Is to the ear of faith;...

...smiling upon me * See pp. 54, 104. t Compare Wordsworth, who said : "I have seen A curious child . . . applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell, To which, in silence hushed, liix very Soul Listened intensely; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were...

...Excursion" William Wordsworth has written a passage which suggests the magnitude of our listening power : I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith; and there are times,...

..."authentic tidings of invisible things" as the child, committing an empirical "error" listens to a shell: I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith; and there are times,...

...your own homecoming. May each breath be like a footstep bringing you back to the home of yourself. I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with it's native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith; and there are times,...

...through the temporality of writing) to mediate between self and other, as in this example from book 4: I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith; and there are times,...

...birth-place moan, as moans the ocean-shell. [1.36] Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described. "I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intently, and his countenance...