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...heaven I saw a Man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore gray hairs. 65 1X. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the...endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself ; 60 Such seemed this Man, not all alive...

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...picturesque; see Hussey, The Picturesque 109. 52. "Resolution and Independence," stanzas 9-10: "As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie / Couched on the bald top of an eminence; . . . / Such seemed this Man." 53. Cf. the parallel phrase in The Prelude 1.77-79: "a higher power...

...the inanimate and animate, natural and human worlds: As a huge Stone is sometimes seen to lie Couch'd on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder to all who...seems a thing endued with sense: Like a Sea-beast crawl'd forth, which on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself. Such seem'd this Man,...

...of heaven I saw a Man before me unawares: The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. IX As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the...of an eminence; Wonder to all who do the same espy, 60 By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense: Like...

...elaborating that its true function is to collapse and fuse apparently hierarchical orders of being: i As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the...on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun himself. Such seemed this Man; not all alive or dead Nor all asleep, in his extreme old age. Motionless...

...in the first sighting of the 'Leech-gatherer' in 'Resolution and Independence', composed in 1802: As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the...means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seemed a thing endued with sense: Like a sea beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth,...

...described will take us back to the stark surroundings of Michael in the vale above Green-head Gill: "As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie / Couched on the bald top of an eminence" — so, the poet says, this man appeared to him. The weight and durability of that thinglike man or...