Find strength in what remains behind

“What though the radiance which was once so bright 

be now forever taken from my sight. 

Though nothing can bring back the hour 

of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. 

We will grieve not, rather 

find strength in what remains behind.”

— William Wordsworth from Ode, Intimations of Immortality from Recollection of Early Childhood.* 

William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. The Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, also known as The Great Ode is published in 1807 and is generally considered to be Wordsworth's greatest work. 

To read the full work, visit  The Great Ode at http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww331.html