Quote of the Day (Wordsworth)

“FIVE years have past; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a soft inland murmur.” – William Wordsworth, “Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”
(I did not have a chance to use this as an additional post yesterday, which would have marked 210 years after its original inspiration, when the poet took a walk around the Wye. In any case, it would be a shame to waste these beautiful lines from one of the cornerstones of Romantic literature—one that evokes the major characteristics of that movement: the stress on the sublime, sweet nostalgia, and the communion between the self and nature.)