ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS
OF EARLY CHILDHOOD

­ì¤å»Pª`ÄÀ(Text and Annotation): VIII

8. (Summary)
Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie
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        Thy soul's immensity;
Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep  
Thy heritage, thou Eye among the blind,
That, deaf and silent, read'st the eternal deep,
Haunted for ever by the eternal mind,—
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        Mighty Prophet! Seer blest!
        On whom those truths do rest,
Which we are toiling all our lives to find,
In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave;
Thou, over whom thy Immortality
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Broods like the Day, a master o'er a slave,
A presence which is not to be put by;
Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might  
Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height,
Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke
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The years to bring the inevitable yoke,
Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife?
Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight,
And custom lie upon thee with a weight,  
Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!
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