The first two lines (about quitting your books or you'll grow double) could form the basis of an historically informed anti-obesity campaign.
Lesley Newson
College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter
Department of Environmental Science and Policy, UCDavis
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Here’s the full poem…
UP! up! my Friend, and quit your books;
Or surely you'll grow double:
Up! up! my Friend, and clear your looks;
Why all this toil and trouble?
The sun, above the mountain's head,
A freshening lustre mellow
Through all the long green fields has spread,
His first sweet evening yellow.
Books! 'tis a dull and endless strife:
Come, hear the woodland linnet,
How sweet his music! on my life,
There's more of wisdom in it.
And hark! how blithe the throstle sings!
He, too, is no mean preacher:
Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.
She has a world of ready wealth,
Our minds and hearts to bless--
Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health,
Truth breathed by cheerfulness.
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:--
We murder to dissect.
Enough of Science and of Art;
Close up those barren leaves;
Come forth, and bring with you a heart
That watches and receives.
(1798).
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Hi
Apologies for cross posting but I want to see what the different forums make of this.
I recently came across the phrase " Let nature be your teacher" it comes from a poem by Wordsworth, he of daffodil fame and much else.
But I found my self contemplating its meaning while stuck in a traffic jam and I cannot make up my mind whether it is just plane Hippy and a tad dippy, inspirational and moving or a vision of a Darwinistic nightmare.
Your thoughts?
Ian
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