Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Wordsworth knew. He was neither seer nor pro phet, 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.