William Wordsworth
A SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT SEAL
1799-1800
Written in Germany

A slumber did my spirit seal;
      I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
      The touch of earthly years.

No motion has she now, no force;
      She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,
      With rocks, and stones, and trees.