Voices of Doubt

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Excerpt from Voices of Doubt: Australian Scenes, and Other Poems Wordsworth, speaking of his own tome, said - ... The world is too much with us: Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers ... and his words must often be recalled in a community where life is so largely occupied with things lying merely on the surface of existence. There are few who do not find themselves driven to seek times of retreat, wherein the solemnities lying below the fair face of society are those which absorb the thought. It was in obedience to this impulse that most of the things in this volume had their origin. "Sometimes, " says Mr. F. W. H. Myers (Modern Essays), "our relations to the Unseen will take possession of the soul, thought is lost in love, and emotion seems to find its natural outlet in spiritual aspiration and prayer." In such moods it is no less natural that meditative thought should seek articulate utterance in some form of verse, in which subdued feeling in the very act of expression is partly veiled. Beautiful scenes and sacred characters in the life of long ago blend mysteriously with the thoughts of the present. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.