William Wordsworth: Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows (from The Prelude, Book 1)

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Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows (from The Prelude, Book 1)

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by William Wordsworth
(1770 - 1850) Timeline

Original Language
English

Secular or Eclectic

19th Century

Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows
Like harmony in music; there is a dark
Inscrutable workmanship that reconciles
Discordant elements, makes them cling together
In one society. How strange, that all
The terrors, pains, and early miseries,
Regrets, vexations, lassitudes interfused
Within my mind, should e'er have borne a part,
And that a needful part, in making up
The calm existence that is mine when I
Am worthy of myself! Praise to the end!

-- from Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty, Edited by Alan Jacobs

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Themes

Eternal Life

Pain and Wounding

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