...by their being thus connected with, and opposed to, each other ! ' Aa a huge atone is sometimea aeen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence, Wonder to all who do the same espy By what meana it could thither come, and whence, So that it aeema a thing endued with sense, Like a sea-beaat...

...eye of heaven I saw a Man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of fin eminence ; Wonder to all who do the same espy, Bv what means it could thither come, and whence;...

...come, and whence ; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself ; X. Such seemed this Man, not all alive nor dead, Nor all asleep — in his extreme old age : His...

...and outline, resembling many others in West Yorkshire, and reminding one of Wordsworth's simile : As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the...it could thither come and whence ; So that it seems n thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock, or sand, reposcth...

...eye of heaven I saw a Man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the...endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself ; x. Such seemed this Man, not all alive...

...before him — a living man — he seems to the poet as something seen "in Visions of the Lord." As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the...endued with sense ; Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself. Such seemed this man, not all alive...

...let a great poet testify ; for the fact has not escaped the delicate eye of Wordsworth : " As a hnge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald...endued with sense ; Like a sea.beast crawled forth, that on a shalf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself." To the civilised poet, the fancy becomes...

...of till will be found with their scattered boulders sometimes many tons in weight. In such places ' A huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the...thither come and whence, So that it seems a thing indued with sense, Like a sea beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there...

...heaven I saw a Man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. IX. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the...endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself ; X. Such seemed this Man, not all alive...

...by him in the Preface to the 1815 edition of his Poems : — "Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself." It is perhaps impertinent to call attention to the exquisite allusion to the poet having "ever beeu...