The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-06-09
"LfSI WE FORGII"
Essay of Miss Lucy irene La
veaga Read Last friday

the world grew ard spread Its people
over it's immense surface, the small
sphere could not cover the great a ca,
so It was shattered that it's fragments
might be carried into all corners OF
the earth.
And thus each little fragment though
not the complete sphere has the same
quail ties and characte istics as the
original mass had. And each
brings with 1t joy and cheerfulness, If
we will but accept them. These 1t
tie fragments are lying all about US
in natures great realm. waiting to be
picked up and remoulded into its TO- M
Ell sphere.
Nature abounds with these frag-
ments, yet day by day we pass them
by never dreaming that they ale near
us; and waiting and hoping that some
one will bring them TO us; never TAX
ing to ourselves the lessons hat the
& eat teachers ave g ven us that we
might sea oh for them.
One of the greatest searchers as well
as one of the greatest poets the world
has ever known, was William Words
worth. He was born amid the lakes
and mountains of the quiet Engli7h
county-Cumberland-on APP il Z, 1710
Wordsworth 10Th on his father n
mothers SIDE was descended from an
cestors that for ~centeuries had had re-
~pect and honor in England. He was
$500 = \ arI wall ha
might be for he undoubtedly OWED to
IL many OF those traits of character
which distinguished him both as a
man ard a. a poet. Wordsworth was
his own Inspiration: and although he
was e eatly Influenced by his sister
Dorothy and his T lend Coleridge. he
sought neither In customary usage
nor in chance example for the sources
OF his thoughts.
The character of Dorothy Words
wo tn has long taken its place among
the admirable and devoted women who
have inspired the work and thoughts
of great men. Her tenderness and
sweetness contributed greatly TO mould
his nature and open his mind to the
Influences of poetry. In his sister he
had a companion who met every need
IF his intellect. Nor unm ndful or In
2 -ateful. He wrote:
''she gave ne eyes, she gave me ears.
And humble care. and delicate fears,
A heart the fountain of sweet tears,
And love and thought and JOY"
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eIidge and Wordsworth formed a life
long fr'erdship. coleridge OWNED
wordsworth's genius truly and they
spent much time together, discussing
hi prime 9les OF poetry.
When a very young man Words
worth met and mar led Mary Hutchin-
son of Penrith and this completed the
circle of his felicity. He now re-
tired TO The lake country a beauti-
full spot in England. where he might
commune tn natufe and try TO ex-
press to mar the beauty and signih-
canoe of the world in which they lived.
ITO look on natu, e, not as in the hour
OF thoughtless youth-but hearing of
ten times
The still sad music of humanity"
Raised in the heart of nature he
seems to have had a d.vine inspiIa-
ton to tell of its beauties to man.
While "a mere boy he loved nothing
bette.' than to take long rambles ana
excursions in the country either alone
or in company with some kindred sp-r-
A. lf-a hfe rirtn- ne tka-n d. :, HAS
nc sa d:
For Nature then
To me was all in all. l cannot paint
What then was. The sounding cata-
ract
Haunted me like a passion; the tall
rock,
The mountain and the deep and
gloomy wood.
Their coiors their forms, were then
to me
An appetite. a feeling and a love
That had no need for a remote chasm,
By thought supplied. no any interest
Unbounded f ON the eye
This ii shows that nature was "all
in alP' TO Wordsworth ard ii is tue
thai he loved nature so p~assionately
that he rave a sweet uninterrupted
life to its deepest study so that he
might give to man its ethical teach
ings and gve him the benefit of the
happiness he found therein.
He say nature truly. he saw her as
she is nj tn his own eyes. he saw
hec as he wanted the world to see her
nature full of happiness waiting fog
man..
Wordsworth has been pronounced
"the keenest eyed of all modern poets
for what is deep and essential in
nature"
His theme of which he never wearied,
was remarkable for its ethical teach
ings. 1t Was as a lifelong inspira-
ton to him. Wordsworth dealt with
his theme with steadfastness and per-
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