GRGR (33) - The Glass Sphere

[Otto Sell]

> 
> And while on the trail of those Romantic poets it's probably apt to
> (re)consider Wordsworth's 'Ode on Intimations of Immortality from
> Recollections of Early Childhood' especially in relation to the Pan and
> "green uprising" passage and its precedents (and to Blicero's failing
> eyesight I guess):
> 
>      [...]
>      The things which I have seen now I can see no more.
> 
>      The rainbow comes and goes,
>      And lovely is the rose;
>      The moon doth with delight
>      Look round her when the heavens are bare;
>      [...]
>      But yet I know, where'er I go
>      That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.
> 

found this:

http://www.drbecky.com/intimations.html

Otto