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Present themselves as objects recognized,

In flashes, and with glory not their own.

In the first version he had written ‘scarce their 13 own’; he gave to poetry in the last version a complete dominion. ‘Woods and rills’, ‘fountains, meadows, hills and groves’, are not to speak to us in poetry with their own authority. Wordsworth in fact was not ever writing a child’s primer of Nature-mysticism; he left that to his commentators. He was himself concerned with the Nature ‘that exists in works of mighty poets’, with glory not its own.

It is then to such a future that the baby (already