From ‘The Excursion’

A short extract from ‘The Excursion’ by Romantic poet William Wordsworth, about memories lasting long after death.

And when the stream that overflows has passed,A consciousness remains upon the silent shore of memory;Images and precious thoughts that shall not beAnd cannot be destroyed.

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