HIGH is our calling, Friend!--Creative Art
(Whether the instrument of words she use,
Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues,)
Demands the service of a mind and heart,
Though sensitive, yet, in their weakest part,
Heroically fashioned--to infuse
Faith in the whispers of the lonely Muse,
While the whole world seems adverse to desert.
And, oh! when Nature sinks, as oft she may,
Through long-lived pressure of obscure distress,
Still to be strenuous for the bright reward,
And in the soul admit of no decay,
Brook no continuance of weak-mindedness--
Great is the glory, for the strife is hard!
More verses by William Wordsworth
- The Cottager To Her Infant
- Water-Fowl Observed Frequently Over The Lakes Of Rydal And Grasmere
- Though Narrow Be That Old Man’s Cares .
- Siege Of Vienna Raised By John Sobieski
- When I Have Borne In Memory