The Prelude

• (1) "One summer evening (led by her) I found/ A little boat tied to a willow tree"
• "The horizon's utmost boundary; far above/ was nothing but the stars and the grey sky"
• (3) "And growing still in stature the grim shape/ Towered up between me and the stars, and still"
• (4) "my brain/ Worked with a dim and undetermined sense/ of unknown modes of being"
• (5) "But huge and mighty forms, that do not live/ like living men, moved slowly through the mind/ By day, and were a trouble to my dreams."