English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 396. The Inner Vision |
| | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
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| MOST sweet it is with unuplifted eyes | |
| To pace the ground, if path there be or none | |
| While a fair region round the Traveller lies | |
| Which he forbears again to look upon; | |
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| Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene | 5 |
| The work of Fancy, or some happy tone | |
| Of meditation, slipping in between | |
| The beauty coming and the beauty gone. | |
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| —If Thought and Love desert us, from that day | |
| Let us break off all commerce with the Muse: | 10 |
| With Thought and Love companions of our way— | |
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| Whate’er the senses take or may refuse,— | |
| The Mind’s internal heaven shall shed her dews | |
| Of inspiration on the humblest lay. | |
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