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 mine and so were the sun and moon and stars, and all the World was mine; and I the only spectator and enjoyer of it So that with much ado I was corrupted and made to learn the dirty devices of this world. Which now I unlearn, and become as it were a little child again that I may enter into the Kingdom of God.

All the critics, again, send us harking back from Wordsworth’s great Ode, to compare it with Vaughan’s exquisite Retreat:—

But Wordsworth did more than merely revive a lovely fancy out of the dust of eighteenth-century rationalism. He did, up to a point, about the best thing a poet can do; he told men something they all knew concerning