William Wadsworth

The deep power of joy

William Wadsworth | December 2012 (Vol. XXV, No. 11)

While with an eye made quiet by the power
Of harmony, and the deep power of joy
We see into the life of things.

~ William Wadsworth

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting

William Wadsworth | March 2009 (Vol. XXII, No. 3)

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
Heaven lies about us in our infancy!

~ William Wadsworth
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