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Ecclesiastes 12:1 Unlocked Literal Bible
Also call to mind your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of difficulty come, and before the years arrive when you say, “I have no pleasure in them,”
In high school English class, we studied the romantic poets: Wordsworth, Tennyson, Keats, and Blake. I’ve often wondered why they chose those poets. One poem I remember expressed Wordsworth’s frustration with “modern society,” in the 19th century:
The World Is Too Much With Us
The world is too much with us; late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
I think I memorized it at the time. This was the period of the industrial revolution. Money was flowing much more freely than it had previously. Yet it did not bring happiness as many thought it should. Christianity appeared to have lost its power. Wordsworth was hankering after returning to the idealized natural Pagan times. Of course, it was impossible, and the attempt to do so, especially by communist powers, ably exhibited that.
Lord, in this day of Laodicea, revive Your Holy Spirit filled power in our lives.
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