...boulders are, let a great poet testify ; for the fact has not escaped the delicate eye of Wordsworth : " As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself." To the civilised poet, the fancy becomes a beautiful simile ; to a savage poet, it would have become...

...lonely place, When I with these untoward thoughts had striven, Beside a pool bare to the eye of heaven I saw a man before me unawares — The oldest man he...to all who do the same espy By what means it could hither come, and whence ; So that it seems a thing endued with sense — Like a sea-beast crawled forth,...

...picture compared with that produced by their being thus connected with, and opposed to, each other ! ' As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...So that it seems a thing endued with sense, Like a sea- beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun himself. ' Such seemed...

...unawares: The oldest man he seemed that ever wore gray hairs. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to He Couched on the bald top of an eminence ; Wonder to...endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of sickness felt by him in times long past, A more than human weight upon his frame...

...as soon as I espied The old man in that naked wilderness ; Close by a Pond, upon the further side, By what means it could thither come, and whence ;...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...

...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; So that...shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself ; X. Such seemed this Man, not all alive nor deaii, Nor all asleep — in his extreme old age : His...

...shape 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...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...

...to the 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...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...

...motionless : To the pool's farther margin then I drew, He being all the while before me full in view. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself; Such seemed this man, not all alive...

...stands 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...there to sun itself. Such seemed this man, not all alive nor dead, Nor all asleep in his extreme old age ; His body was bent double, feet and head Coming...