...flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. ~ Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826 ~ Whether we be young or old, Our destiny, our being's...only there; With hope it is, hope that can never die, Solomon Effort and expectation, and desire, And something evermore about to be. ~ William Wordsworth,...

...'Immortality Ode'. It is also the claim of the following famous lines: Our destiny, our nature, and our home, Is with infinitude - and only there; With hope...expectation, and desire, And something evermore about to be. (VI, 538—42) These extraordinary lines - so familiar it is hard to read them anew - venture the paradoxical...

...sudden glimpse of the soul's home, he bursts into that descant on the Pauline definition of faith: our being's heart and home, Is with infinitude, and...only there; With hope it is, hope that can never die. (604-6) Wordsworth cannot be identified with either of these mutually exclusive types. He holds a precarious...

...delayed parousia because it preeminently exemplif1es the complexities of poetic enunciation. Afterword With hope it is, hope that can never die, Effort,...expectation, and desire, And something evermore about to be. — Wordsworth, The Prelude DaB du nicht enden kannst, das macht dich groB, Und daB du nie beginnst,...