Friday, July 29, 2011

Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; 
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind; 
In the primal sympathy
Which having been must ever be; 
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering; 
In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind. 

~William Wordsworth "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"