d as he looks towards the growing child, because he knows that the child like himself when he was young, will ultimately “fit his tongue to dialogues of business, love and strife” (1483), that his purity and originality of thought will degrade into something like imitation, and that his “soul shall have her earthly freight and custom lie upon him with a weight” (1483). In the eighth stanza, the speaker addresses the child as though he were a mighty prophet, and asks him why, “Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight”(1483) Ironically the virtuous and celestial-like child is blind to his own fall because he lacks the knowledge of experience.In the ninth stanza the speaker reconciles his loss with hopefulness. He will always be able to experience his lost world of childhood through his memory. “Those shadowy recollections, which, be they what they may, are yet the fountain light of all our day” (1483). The speaker in stanza ten says that although he has lost a part of him, “[he] will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind; in the primal sympathy”(1483). The years of experience have brought him a “philosophic mind”(1483). In the final stanza, the speaker says that his adult morality as opposed to the child's feeling of immortality enables him to love nature and natural beauty more than he did as a child. I love the brooks which down their channels fret, Even more than when I tripp'd lightly as they;Now that he does not possess the childlike virtue he can more greatly appreciate nature and through memories and observation he can experience his childlike splendor once again, and even the simplest flower blowing in the wind can raise in him "thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."The paradox of man’s existence is that he appreciates this childhood perception only when this time in his lif...
