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...like a guilty Thing surprized ! But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of...never ; Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, VOL. II. AA Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish or destroy ! Hence,...

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...and of partial endeavour, from the acknowledgment and influence of those " high instincts" which " Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our sceing ;" to submission to the predominance of unworthy and petty conventions, which in constant succession...

...like a guilty Thing surprized! But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may. Are yet the fountain light of...Are yet a master light of all our seeing ; Uphold as — cherish — and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal...

...influences, no higher than which do they go. Against these have arisen the spiritual protests — " Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet the master light of all our being." These declarations are not protests so much as higher assertions...

...all other in itself. All have known " Those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day." Who has not loved, has not lived ; the eycle of their being is incomplete; as yet they know not how...

...subject to the tenderest awakenings, that these affections, as generally reared, are Thoughts that rise To perish never, Which neither listlessness, nor mad...man, nor boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can e'er root out, abolish, or destroy*. The poet, then, has here something in the human mind by which...

...like a guilty Thing surprised : But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of...: truths that wake, To perish never; Which neither listlcssness, nor mad endeavour, Nor Man nor Boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterly abolish...