I listen'd, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. - William Wordsworth

The music in my heart I bore
Long after it was heard no more.

A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye; Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.

Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.

Imagination! lifting up itself
Before the eye and progress of my Song
Like and unfather'd vapour; here that Power
In all the might of its endowments, came
Athwart me; I was lost as in a cloud,
Halted without a struggle to break through,
And now recovering to my Soul I say
I recognize they glory; in such strength
Of usurpation, in such visitings
Of awful promise, when the light of sense
Goes out in flashes that have shewn to us
The invisible world, doth Greatness make abode
There harbours whether we be young or old.
Our destiny, our nature, and our home
Is with infinitude, and only there;
With hope it is, hope that can never die,
Effort, and expectation, and desire,
And something evermore about to be.