...Stanze 71 — 75. 71 Is it not better, then, to be alone, And love Earlh only for its earthly saker By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone, Or the pure bosom of its nursing Lake, Is it not better thus our lives to wear, Than join the crushing crowd, doomed to inflict or bear1)?...

...Bat there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be. LXXI. s shot Bhoue, Or the pure bosom of its nursing lake, Which feeds it as a mother who doth make A fair but froward...

...passage that again strikingly undermines its apparent reverence, the lake becomes oppressively maternal: Is it not better, then, to be alone, And love earth...rushing of the arrowy Rhone, Or the pure bosom of the nursing Lake, Which feeds it as a mother who doth make A fair but froward infant her own care,...

...are wanderers o'er Eternity 670 Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be. LXXI It is not better, then, to be alone, And love Earth only...arrowy Rhone,' Or the pure bosom of its nursing lake, 675 Which feeds it as a mother who doth make A fair but froward infant her own care, Kissing its cries...

...valuable in itself, without any reference to hypothetical higher worlds, eternities, future existencies. "Is it not better, then, to be alone and love Earth only for its earthly sake?" It is, particularly if you have Blake's gift for seeing eternity in a flower and for "making the whole...

...there are wanderers o'er Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchor'd ne'er shall be. 670 LXXI Is it not better, then, to be alone, And love Earth...nursing lake, Which feeds it as a mother who doth make 675 A fair but froward infant her own care, Kissing its cries away as these awake; — Is it not better...

...follow'd, sought, and sued ; — This is to be alone ; this — this is solitude ! CAXTO III. STANZA LXXI. Is it not better, then, to be alone, And love Earth only for its earthly sake ? By the blue rashing of the arrowy Rhone, Or the pure bosom of its nursing lake, Which feeds it as a mother who...

...of our world. You will read those exquisite lines of the noble poet in reference to Lake Leman— " Is it not better, then, to be alone, And love earth only for its earthly sake P By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhoie, Or the pnre bosom of its nursing lake, Which feeds it as...

...as if only the perspicacity of common eye-sight were required to learn its existence. Who ever sat " By the blue rushing of the arrowy Rhone, Or the pure bosom of its nursing Lake," and in his senses supposed that the diseased state of his eye made any change in the fact of the remarkable...

..., But there are wanderers over Eternity Whose bark drives on and on, and anchored nc'er shatl be.. Is it not better , then , to be alone And love Earth only for its carthly sake? T> pour celui qui marche dans l'obscurité. Les plus hardis i> ne se hasardent sur les...