Show RECORDED D THE THC TRUTH ALWAYS Word poetry set sat his i failure as aa correspondent wordsworth except by virtue of one quality was not remarkable as 03 a letter writer his happiest mooda were those trances tran cea of thought and mountings of the mind which came to him when wandering among the bills or seated upon some old gray stone the ac act t of penmanship was always alays a distress to him in his older elder 3 sears ears he be was troubled with inflammation of the eyes and he often dictated his letters he could chain his mind to record facts but to do so BO implied a state of servitude ile he cared little for the letters of great writers and expressed a wish that hla his own might de do dc strayed he had no pleasant malice eager to escape from the tip of the pen such as horace walpole had ile he had no bubbling mirth which will not be repressed like that of lamb ile he could not engrave an exquisite vignette for ft a friends delight and hla his own like cowper ills his pen was not an et chers needle cor a dagger to stab nor a word sword to out cut nor a hobby hurse horse on which to canter dut but to set over a against all this wordsworth could write the truth and the truth he in n variably wrote |