...realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surprised: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections,...power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being embers — the still-hot, glowing pieces oj wood or coal that remain after afire benediction...

...realiz'd, High instincts, before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surpriz'd: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing. .. . (139,144-155)...

...Wordsworth is at once sublime, certain, and vague about the source of that fontal light; he gives thanks for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing. (149-53) It is in...

...realiz'd, High instincts, before which our mortal Nature Did tremble like a guilty Thing surpriz'd: But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish...

...realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble 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 all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Of the eternal Silence:...

...whom I felt an immediate kinship. He had traveled with me as a beat-up book on many trips. But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections,...our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing . . . Yes, WW understood. This must have been what he felt in the Alps or among his beloved English...

...Finally, on the same page, Unamuno places a mark resembling a right angle next to the lines, "Upon us, cherish, and have power to make / Our noisy years...being / Of the eternal silence; truths that wake." 70. See ch. i, note 20, above. called dreams). The protagonist Segismundo's famous soliloquy at the...

...realised, High instincts before which our mortal Nature Did tremble 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 all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish,...

...recollections, Which, he they what they may, Are yet thefountain light of ail our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisyyears seem moments in the heing Of the eternal Silence; truths that wake, To peris h never." Les...