ABSTRACT
With these lines we wish the Poem had terminated: but Mr. Wordsworth chose to return to The White Doe, and chose to conclude his Poem with a mystical couplet, which, with such phrases as ‘heavenly glory’, applied to his own strains, and ‘beloved of heaven, heaven’s choicest care,’ in reference to the ‘White Doe,’ and other similar expressions, we consign to the happy unintelligibility which envelops them from common intellects. In a poem of Mr. Wordsworth’s, they must have a meaning, and we would hope a good meaning: had we met with them elsewhere, we confess we should have deemed them to be significant only of absurdity.
