“Whether we be young or old,
Our destiny, our being's heart and home,
Is with infinitude, and only there;
With hope it is, hope that can never die,
Effort and expectation, and desire,
And something evermore about to be.”
Bk. VI, l. 603.
The Prelude (1799-1805)
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Source: Letters, p. 250