Then whence?
Other lives?
Other worlds?
Perhaps, when you have read all that I shall write, you will have received answers to the perplexities I have propounded to you, and that you yourself, ere you came to read me, propounded to yourself.
* * * * * Wordsworth knew.

He was neither seer nor prophet, but just ordinary man like you or any man.

What he knew, you know, any man knows.

But he most aptly stated it in his passage that begins "Not in utter nakedness, not in entire forgetfulness.

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