...from Gray's 'Ode on vicissitude' about the invalid who at length is able to 'breathe and walk again': The meanest flowret of the vale, The simplest note...sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise. In that spring the call of Wessex to Hardy must have been strong. London had become at times a nightmarish...

...does not clearly echo. Gray's lines come near the end of his unfinished poem: The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale,...sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise. (Anderson 10:195) As de Selincourt notes, the allusion is clear in Wordsworth's final lines: "To me...

...exhibited were but the natural result of temperate habits and virtuous demeanour. " The simplest flow' ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common air, the earth, the skies, To them were opening Paradise ! Five hundred years after the period of their...

...long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again: The meanest flowret of the vale, The simplest note...sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise. Immediately on Hardy's recovery the question arose of whereabouts he and his wife should live. The...

...Arisingfrom Vicissitude (1775), wo es über einen Kranken im Frühling heißt: The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale,...common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening Paradise.5" Vgl. den Kommentar in Tennyson (1969), S. 686. Gray / Collins (1977), S. 60. Andererseits...

...they exhibited were but the natural result of temperate habits and virtuous demeanour. " The simplest flow'ret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common air, the earth, the skies, To them were opening Paradise ! Five hundred years after the period of their...