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Quotes & Sources The Fairfield Review, An On-line Literary Magazine for the Global Community.

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          The outward shows of sky and earth,
         Of hill and valley, he has viewed;
         And impulses of deeper birth
         Have come to him in solitude.

         In common things that round us lie
         Some random truths he can impart,--                         50
         The harvest of a quiet eye
         That broods and sleeps on his own heart.

         But he is weak; both Man and Boy,
         Hath been an idler in the land;
         Contented if he might enjoy
         The things which others understand.

         --Come hither in thy hour of strength;
         Come, weak as is a breaking wave!
         Here stretch thy body at full length;
         Or build thy house upon this grave.                         60
                                                             

Willian Wordsworth, "A POET'S EPITAPH." 1799.

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