...vespers, — Nature fails not to provide Impulse and utterance. The whispering air 1170 HAUUW. Ill R Sends inspiration from the shadowy heights, And blind...heard Within the circuit of this fabric huge, One voice— the solitary raven, flying Athwart the concave of the dark blue dome, Unseen, perchance above...

...the cayejnfid ro.cj.jsj The little rills, and waters numberless, Inaudible by daylight, blend Uieir notes With the loud streams : and often, at the hour...heard, Within the circuit of this fabric huge, One voice — the solitary raven, flying Athwart the concave of the dark blue dome, Unseenj_perchance above...

...So sweetly 'mid the gloom the invisible bird Sang to herseif . . . (Prelude II 125 — 126.) . . . and often, at the hour When issue forth the first pale stars, is heard, ') Vol. I Cap. 22 (Ausg. Hempel) p. 88. One voice — the solitary raven, flying Athwart the concave...

...never chant Her vespers, — Nature fails not to provide Impulse and utterance. The whispering air 15 Sends inspiration from the shadowy heights, And blind...notes With the loud streams : and often, at the hour 20 When issue forth the first pale stars, is heard, Within the circuit of this fabric huge. One voice...

...faculty; but revelations and quick insights into the life within us, the pledge of immortality : — —the whispering Air Sends inspiration from the shadowy...Rills, and Waters numberless, Inaudible by daylight. ' I have seen,' the poet says, and the illustration is an happy one: —I have seen A curious Child...

...display, The elastic vanities of yesterday*? (1834) "THE LEAVES THAT RUSTLED ON THIS OAK-CROWNED HILL"1 " Often, at the hour When issue forth the first pale...heard, Within the circuit of this fabric huge, One voice — the solitary rtven." THE leaves that rustled on this oak-crowned hill, And sky that danced...

...the solemn nightingale be mute, And the soft woodlark here did never chant Her vespers, — Nature fails not to provide Impulse and utterance. The whispering air Sends inspiration from the shadowy heights, 40 And blind recesses of the caverned rocks; The little rills, and waters numberless, Inaudible by...

...solitary raven is an access to that which beyond sight, achieved via the dying echo of the heard cry: The whispering air Sends inspiration from the shadowy...heights, And blind recesses of the caverned rocks; Within the circuit of this fabric huge, One voice — the solitary raven, flying Athwart the concave...

...if the solemn nightingale be mute And the soft woodlark here did never chant Her vespers, — Nature fails not to provide Impulse and utterance. The whispering...daylight, blend their notes With the loud streams. (4.1156-75) The elements of this eloquent harangue (which continues for another hundred lines) are...

...January 1835. the voice of the Raven inflight EQ added in pencil (from Excursion, IV, 1175-6, 1178): Often, at the hour When issue forth the first pale stars, is heard, — One voice, the solitary raven etc etc 112 The sun has long been set Though dated 1804 in editions...