ODE: INTIMATIONS OF
IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS
OF EARLY CHILDHOOD
釋意（paraphrase）: IX
原文與注釋(Text and Annotation)
Fortunately, there are some effects that even in our adult years remain and nature still remembers even though most of them have flown away. When I remember our past years I offer a blessing, not for the most worthy things like delight, liberty, and simple childhood belief (whether the child is busy or resting with his new hope still in his heart), but rather for those difficult questions of sense, sensible things and outward things, falling from us, vanishing which are the thoughts of a creature who is moving around in worlds not yet truly made real, nor yet poetically seen. These are instincts before which our mortal nature trembles like surprising a person doing an evil act. But for those first feelings and remembrance which are still the source of light for all our day, they are still the master light of all we see. They sustain us and ahve the power to make our younger years seem moments in the being of the eternal silence: truths that wake and never perish , truths which neither a lack of interest nor a mad struggling for, neither man nor boy, nor all of these at enmity with our joy can utterly abolish or destroy. Therefore, when the wether is calm and even though we are far inland, our souls can in a moment's time return there and see the children playing on the shore and hear waters rolling.