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2013-01-22 - 8:56 a.m.
Dear Blog: I thought of Thee, my partner and my guide, As being pass'd away.�Vain sympathies! For, backward, Duddon! as I cast my eyes, I see what was, and is, and will abide; Still glides the Stream, and shall for ever glide; The Form remains, the Function never dies; While we, the brave, the mighty, and the wise, We Men, who in our morn of youth defied The elements, must vanish;�be it so! Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know. --William Wordsworth, "Valedictory Sonnet to the River Duddon"
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