Wordsworth at Grasmere

These hills and waters fostered you
Abiding in your argument
Until all comely wisdom drew
About you, and the years were spent.

Now over hill and water stays
A world more intimately wise,
Built of your dedicated days,
And seen in your beholding eyes.

So, marvellous and far, the mind,
That slept among them when began
Waters and hills, leaps up to find
Its kingdom in the thought of man.