Thursday, September 15, 2016

Poetry: a quotation from William Wordsworth on God

One of my mother's favorite poets was English poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850). Here is a quotation from his poem "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798." It is a quotation about God. I dedicate this bit of poetry to the memory of my mother Evelyn M. Gilmer (1923-2016), because it was one of her favorite quotations.

                                             And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man:
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.

William Wordsworth




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