Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-03-02
CY)NiEUNECATED.
NEORDSWORTH.-No. l.

WORDSWORTH.-No. /.
we have ever felt solemn awe and reverence
ST. lover the mind us We entered the sacred precincts
which enshaiue tho poet and philosopher As VIC
4I.qucc to the magnificent temple of the muse, eve
-y tl.ag ub us, within ~, and around u.s. proclaim
Il lia SILL whsperags Of their own divinity, that
ucase trcad,ng haowe1 ground; the warning and
elugni;ory words of The Sybil, "pfocul procu este
pronni' as the guards TO its entrance, warn us
tpt with slow ami thoughtful steps approach the
h4bilti3n Of those awful spirits whose words
o-lcI,s for mankuI--whose love embraces all conn-
tdc., and whose voice sounds through all ages. Es-
o.clIly have these been our feelings s!udied
tie poems Of WnrdsWo uh
Friend of the wise and teacher of the good
whose philosophy i postry-whose poetry contains
d.e deepest philosophy, and both Of which contain
!ho greatest system Of psychology the world has ever
seen. From earliest recollection, we have been
accustomed look upon the true poet a being best
above The lot ordinary men, ssing soul alive
8, nh the grand AMI beautiful in nature. Wherever
he may be- ten thousand objects feed the sacred FIRE.
uI hndling to a fame his thoughts and feelings all
"nvoluntogy move harmonious numbers and are
poured forth in words that breathe and thoughts that
burn"
every thing admire for he, himself is one of the
nnhest spec mems Of humanity though in the great
ness Of hts soul he grasps tho universe Nothing is
foreign to him that pertains to humanity the child
nho had lost her pet lamb the leach galhorcr on
the lonely moor; The patient and grateful Simon
Lee all excite and call forth the gushing sympahes
OF him, WHO Ind learned to gaze mature with pc.
cts eye, philosophc mind and christians heart.
.f lie "A ltn I'm Ia paZe on
aut.. lumnaries, who age after age have luminod
u Adorned tac hemisphere Of The 'sea-gjrt Isle, the
ItWulnE Of Wordsworth's reuiusamid the constelia-
.09 " poets and philosophers appears hks another
morn rising md noon. The star that ushcrcd in
l'r morning of his glad birth the herald of glory
not oIly 10 his fellow countrymeu but to all who
speak lis mother tongue, even 10 millions yet I'M
born.
lie has been known 10 the pubic as poet, scarce
81 urty years, una yet his reputation and fame are
us permanent NhItou's, after the lapse of a
century. Relying on the promptngs Of his own in
.aaclye greatness no has dared 10 challenge for
himself The wreath of immortality and TO implore for
Che" Excursion" his subiimost song;
That
With star-!lke virtue in lis place may shine,
Shedding hcuignaut influence. and secure
Itself f.om all malrvolent effect,
Orthoso mu,liioas that extend their sway
Throughput tins nc,hcr sphere"
Few arc The number Of those who would he critics
Who have read carefully his works, and fewer still
are ih'se who have unused " on man, on nature, and
0n human iiie W win poet $ heart' ana win him
descend 10 The "'ia'f springs "i our immunity 'hten'
Co "e'sh 'Ne Goou ana CIV" u o,' "o''' S,'''' we
have yet to dnah deeper and moro celebrating
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Worlsworth.s po,tic mind. Rrioht in himself and
luminous 10 all around To him as n fountain five
thousand others may repair and in their golden urns
'N 's"' 'y'.'' '' ,','''I'0 o. whose '>'e
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.., bar,airy no,e sacred an mare h.es, +, the en-,
time
al, serves the muses. errlngly and in.