At length in 1850, at the age of eighty, he too closed his eyes,
and went "From sunshine to the sunless land."
"But where will Europe's latter hour
Again find Wordsworth's healing power?
Others will teach us how to dare,
And against fear our breast to steel;
Others will strengthen us to bear--
But who, ah! who, will make us feel?"*
*Arnold.
BOOKS TO READ
Poems of Wordsworth, selected by C. L. Thomson. Selections, by
Matthew Arnold.
Chapter LXXVI COLERIDGE AND SOUTHEY--SUNSHINE AND SHADOW
LONG before Wordsworth closed his eyes on this world, Coleridge,
in some ways a greater poet than his friend, had gone to his last
rest. Wordsworth had a happy, loving understanding of the little
things of real life. He had an "exquisite regard for common
things," but his words have seldom the glamour, the something
which we cannot put into words which makes us see beyond things
seen. This Coleridge had. It is not only his magic of words, it
is this trembling touch upon the unknown, the unearthly beauty
and sadness of which he makes us conscious in his poems that
marks him as great.
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