The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-06-09

men themselves.
Wordsworth wrote because he wished
to express to mar as he interpreted
them-the lessons OF God through ma
ture; and that this happ'nehs of which
we are speaking lies all around us and
may be had for the sea ching.
The true force of his teachings lay
n its ethical import. WORDSWORTH
ability as a teacher lay in his powe,
to make the trivial serve the express
on Of the sublime.
In the smallest things of nature
Wordsworth saw happiness and from
them he interpreted beautiful lessons
When In the ca ly spring Re heard the
blended notes Of the birds, and saw
the budding twigs ard primrose tufts
I grieved him amid such far works
Of nature, to think what man has
nade of man." Not only d'd he wish to
BE a teacher, but a teacher of all tht Is
GOOD and beautiful. He teaches hap
niness not only for the sake of hap
piness. but for a moral that will benz
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teacha~ o. he Is nothing. He teache~
US to love and trust the world IN Which
we live ard the God who made 1t and
to learn directly from nature:
zone impulse from a vernai wood.
May teach you more of man,
OF moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can"
From his title stan we see that
he places nature above man as Q
teacher. He looks constantly about
him for these lessons. Man must no.
expect them-these lessons-to come to
him If his mind Is not looking 70,
them. Wordsworth urges all to ooh
70 these lessons in natu e and to study
heir depth. He has said that no one
can move among majestic forms of ma
ture without being Influenced, foi
though he be blind yet he may near
and though he be deaf yet he may
see.
Again he teaches US the constant in
fuence of our surrounding:
Think you mid all the mighty sum
OF things forever speaking.
That nothing of itself will come,
But we must still be speaking?
THE eye-it cannot choose but see;
We cannot hid the ear b. still:
Our bodies feel, wher'er they be,
Against or VIII our will"
In this great ethical teaching he
did all in his powei to excite man t.
the beauties of nature, hidden yet APP
pa ent if sought for.
Wordsworth's Imagination was cas-
lily excited and from the simple. con
mon things of life he drew the MIST
br liant and imaginable feeling anc
IS a result we find mag native struc.
poet is at his best. supfemely splen-
did and gorgeous. And Professor
Mimic says:
mo poet has built such magnificent
palaces of rare material for ordinary
eve y-day, homely human affections
everyday principals of conduct, which
are so apt TO become threadbaIe, WITH
such imperishable robes of finest text
uie and richest design. that Words
worth holds so high a place among the
mo. alists-the greatest moralIsts il
verse"
He had no use for the conventional
tiles in poet y. Metaphors and SMILES
he abhorl ed. To him they were III
poetry as the affectat.ons are in LIE
In many of his poems the lessons
therein are so deep that they cannoI
be easily understood by many students
Through these may be traced two OF
Wordsworth's most predominatine
n his deep thought.
WoIdsworth took his subjects from
among the hngs. inter
preted beautiful lessons from them
me wrote his poems in the s.mpliesl
style. Bending a reverent ear to the
mysterious harmonies of nature. to the
c~easeless song of praise that rises from
every blade of 6 ass and every dew
diop. MARBLES in the fluting of every
lark, and sweeps to HEAVIER in every
wave of air. he found in his W deer
heart a musical echo of that song. and
shaping into words the swelling In h 6
inward faith he spoke to the world IL
a way to which the world was little
used. about things in which the world
saw no poetic beauty. And in this won
derful inlaginat on of his he teaches US
that it lies within ourselves to make
beautiful those things which seen
plain. Lest We forget God and his di-
vine teachings as set forth in the prim-
er OF natu.e. Wordsworth bent his
whole energy to interp citing this .. i'm
er. He wanted TO teach to man the
import of the saying. Lest we For
get"
Wordsworth's life was happily de-
void OF striking external incident. Its
essential part lay in meditation and