Book Excerpt: ify, and to refresh."What want we? have we not perpetual streams,Warm woods, and sunny hills, and fresh green fields,And mountains not less green, and flocks and herds,And thickets full of songsters, and the voiceOf lordly birds, an unexpected soundHeard now and then from morn to latest eve,Admonishing the man who walks belowOf solitude and silence in the sky.These have we, and a thousand nooks of earthHave also these, but nowhere else is found,Nowhere (or is it fancy?) can be foundThe one sensation that is here;...'tis the senseOf majesty, and beauty, and repose,A blended holiness of earth and sky,Something that makes this individual spot,This small abiding-place of many men,A termination, and a last retreat,A centre, come from wheresoe'er you will,A whole without dependence or defect,Made for itself, and happy in itself,Perfect contentment, Unity entire."In the Grasmere vale Wordsworth lived for half a century, first in alittle cottage aRead More