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...unawares: The oldest man he seemed that ever wore gray hairs. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to He Couched on the bald top of an eminence ; Wonder to...Like a sea-beast crawled forth, which on a shelf Of sickness felt by him in times long past, A more than human weight upon his frame had cast. Himself...

...eye of heaven s I saw a Man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...an eminence ; Wonder to all who do the same espy, 1 ms. perished in its pride ; IS07 ! 1820. Behind his plough, upon the mountain-side : 1807 3 1820....

...as soon as I espied The old man in that naked wilderness ; Close by a Pond, upon the further side, By what means it could thither come, and whence ;...endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself ; x. Such seemed this Man, not all alive...

...by their being thus connected with, and opposed to, each other ! ' Aa a huge atone is sometimea aeen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence, Wonder to all who do the same espy By what meana it could thither come, and whence, So that it aeema a thing endued with sense, Like a sea-beaat...

...eye of heaven I saw a Man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of fin eminence ; Wonder to all who do the same espy, Bv what means it could thither come, and whence;...

...shape and outline, resembling many others in West Yorkshire, and reminding one of Wordsworth's simile : As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...it could thither come and whence ; So that it seems n thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock, or sand, reposcth...

...motionless : To the pool's farther margin then I drew, He being all the while before me full in view. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself; Such seemed this man, not all alive nor dead, Nor all asleep in his extreme old age : His body...

...eye of heaven I saw a Man before me unawares : The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs. As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself ; x. Such seemed this Man, not all alive...

...stands before him — a living man — he seems to the poet as something seen "in Visions of the Lord." As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on...endued with sense ; Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself. Such seemed this man, not all alive...