Beginning My Studies
BEGINNING MY STUDIES.
BEGINNING my studies, the first step pleas'd me so much, The mere fact, consciousness—these forms—the pow-er of motion, The least insect or animal—the senses—eyesight; The first step, I say, aw'd me and pleas'd me so much, I have never gone, and never wish'd to go, any farther, But stop and loiter all my life, to sing it in extatic songs.