<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539983" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Expostulation and Reply</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Why, William, on that old grey stone, <br>Thus for the length of half a day, <br>Why, William, sit you thus alone, <br>And dream your time away? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Where are your books?--that light bequeathed <br>To Beings else forlorn and blind! <br>Up! up! and drink the spirit breathed <br>From dead men to their kind. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;You look round on your Mother Earth, <br>As if she for no purpose bore you; <br>As if you were her first-born birth, <br>And none had lived before you!&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">One morning thus, by Esthwaite lake, <br>When life was sweet, I knew not why, <br>To me my good friend Matthew spake, <br>And thus I made reply: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;The eye--it cannot choose but see; <br>We cannot bid the ear be still; <br>Our bodies feel, where'er they be, <br>Against or with our will. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Nor less I deem that there are Powers <br>Which of themselves our minds impress; <br>That we can feed this mind of ours <br>In a wise passiveness. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;Think you, 'mid all this mighty sum <br>Of things for ever speaking, <br>That nothing of itself will come, <br>But we must still be seeking? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;--Then ask not wherefore, here, alone, <br>Conversing as I may, <br>I sit upon this old grey stone, <br>And dream my time away,&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539983" data-title="Expostulation and Reply de William Wordsworth" data-description="&quot;Why, William, on that old grey stone, Thus for the length of half a day, Why, William, sit you thus alone, And dream your time away? &quot;Where are your books?--that light bequeathed To Beings else forlorn and blind! Up! up! and drin..."></div> </div> </div>

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