ENGLAND'S DEBT TO WORDSWORTH.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—While recognising to the full the force of all that is said in honour of Wordsworth in the Spectator of August 5th, and. noting the subordinate honour rightly given to Rousseau
and.Chateaubriand, I would ask if in George Herbert we did not have an English poet who described " the oneness of man with Nature " early and well ? Lest you should not have the lines by your side in this holiday weather, I will risk the quotation-of a few that are to the point :• " Man is all symmetry,
Full of proportion, one limb to another, And all to all the World besides : Each part may call the farthest brother, For head with foot path private amity, And both with Moons and Tides."
"Nothing bath got so far, But man, bath caught and kept it as his prey, His eyes dismount the highest star He is in little all the sphere :
Herbs gladly cure our flesh because that they End their acquaintance there."
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