The Power of Nature
The Power of Nature The Wye Valley (Country Life) 150 "If I should be where I no more can hear 151 Thy voice, nor catch from thy wild eyes these gleams 152 Of past existence-wilt thou then forget 153 That on the banks of this delightful stream 154 We stood together; and that I, so long 155 A worshiper of Nature, hither came 156 Unwearied in that service: rather say 157 With warmer love-oh! with far deeper zeal 158 Of holier love. Nor wilt thou then forget, 159 That after many wanderings, many years 160 Of absence, these steep woods and lofty cliffs, 161 And this green pastoral landscape, were to me 162 More dear, both for themselves and thy sake!" (Wordsworth lines 150-162) This excerpt from the po...