The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #69187 Message #1171847
Posted By: Jim McCallan
26-Apr-04 - 10:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: What happened to common sense?
Subject: RE: BS: What happened to common sense?
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-gather'd now like sleeping flowers, For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.—Great God! I'd rather be A 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 wreathèd horn.
How William Wordsworth put it, oh... in about 1807, or something.