...been embodied by a poet's words, — a passage in the " Excursion " presenting the same image : — " I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to her ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell, To which, in silence hush'd, her very soul Listen'd...

...GARDEV 9 AUTHOR OF "VOICES OF THE NIGHT," " CHRI3T RECEIVING SINNERS," "SCRIPTURK READINGS," ETC. BTC. I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...smooth-lipped shell, To which, in silence hushed, hia very soul Listened intently, and his countenance Brightened with joy ; for within were heard Murmurings,...

...By the inferior faculty that moulds, With her minute and speculative pains, Opinion, ever changing. I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell ; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intensely ; and his countenance...

..."Excursion" when I think of the true attitude to the slowly evolving history of man. "I have seen [he says] A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland...were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed •L'fysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the Universe itself Is to the ear of faith;...

...smiling upon me * See pp. 54, 104. t Compare Wordsworth, who said : "I have seen A curious child . . . applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell, To which, in silence hushed, liix very Soul Listened intensely; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy; for from within were...

...Excursion" William Wordsworth has written a passage which suggests the magnitude of our listening power : I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith; and there are times, I doubt not, when...

..."authentic tidings of invisible things" as the child, committing an empirical "error" listens to a shell: I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith; and there are times, I doubt not, when...

...your own homecoming. May each breath be like a footstep bringing you back to the home of yourself. I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with it's native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith; and there are times,...

...through the temporality of writing) to mediate between self and other, as in this example from book 4: I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of Faith; and there are times, I doubt not, when...

...birth-place moan, as moans the ocean-shell. [1.36] Such a shell as Wordsworth has beautifully described. "I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract...ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipp'd shell; To which, in silence hush'd, his very soul Listen'd intently, and his countenance...