...is young and unsophisticated, will be the certainty of the response to a teacher of simple faith : " There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them, —...misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth. " And blest are they who in the main This faith even now do entertain, Live in the spirit of this creed,...

...terrors overawe ; From vain temptations dost set free ; And ealm'st the weary strife of frail humanity ! There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who,...and know it not : May joy be theirs while life shall hist ! And thou, if they should totter, teach them to stand fasti Serene will be our days and bright,...

...need is never felt. They are like those whom Wordsworth drew for us in the " Ode to Duty " : 436 " There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who,...reproach or blot ; Who do thy work and know it not." But such are rare ; or, should we say, that their type of mind, though not uncommon in the earlier...

...ROMANTIC BARDS AND BRITISH REVIEWERS 37 (1971). Ode to Duty Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!0 0 Duty! if that name thou love Who art a Light to guide,...not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, 10 Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth: Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot;...

...terrors overawe; From vain temptations dost set free; And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity! There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who,...reproach or blot; Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh! if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power! around them cast. Serene...

...altogether in abeyance: as Wordsworth says There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them: who in simple truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial...Glad hearts, without reproach or blot, Who do thy will and know it not, O if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms dread power around...

...England see; And her Foes find a like inglorious Grave. Ode to Duty Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!0 O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a Light to...not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, I0 Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth: Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot;...

...direct application of reason.2 This has been strikingly expressed by Wordsworth in his Ode to Duly—' " There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them ; who,...rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad hearts I without repronch or blot ; Who do thy work, and know it not** i We shall see later (chap, vi.) that...