...might; 190 I only have relinquished one delight To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripped lighdy as they; The innocent brightness of a new-born Day Is lovely yet; The Clouds that gather round...

...your might; I only have relinquished one delight To live beneath your more habitual sway. I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than...that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober coloring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality; Another race hath been, and other palms...

..."mortality touches the heart." That second moment occurs in the middle of the final stanza of the ode: The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. (197-99) This is not the eye of the child of stanza 8, that "Seer blest," but the humanized and elegiac...

...cycle that he celebrated in the beginning, but with a new awareness of its significance: I love the Brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than...an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. (194-8) These successive phases of the day mean different things: the morning, Wordsworth says, is...

...- as Wordsworth put it, the Thing is the 'sober colouring' reality gets from the eye observing it: The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.7 Perhaps, from this perspective of the Thing as Evil, one should turn around the well-known...

...as Wordsworth put it, the Thing is the "sober colourz ing" reality gets from the eye observing it: The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take...colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.8 i- From this perspective of the Thing as Evil, one should perhaps turn around the well2...