Under the trees . first the spirit of our own race was revealedto us in Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton ;then first we thrilled to that music whichhas never faltered since Caedmon found hisvoice in answer to the heavenly vision.There are days which will always have aplace by themselves in our memory, nightswhose stars have never set, because theybrought us face to face with some greatsoul, and struck into life in an instant somenew and mighty meaning. The ferment ofsoul which Hazlitt describes on the nightwhen he walked home from his first talkwith Coleridge is no exceptional experience ;it c

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Under the trees . first the spirit of our own race was revealedto us in Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton ;then first we thrilled to that music whichhas never faltered since Caedmon found hisvoice in answer to the heavenly vision.There are days which will always have aplace by themselves in our memory, nightswhose stars have never set, because theybrought us face to face with some greatsoul, and struck into life in an instant somenew and mighty meaning. The ferment ofsoul which Hazlitt describes on the nightwhen he walked home from his first talkwith Coleridge is no exceptional experience ;it comes to most young men who are sus-ceptible to the influence of great thoughtscoming for the first time into consciousness.A lonely country road comes into view asI write these words, and over it the heavensbend with a new and marvellous splendour, because the boy who walked along its wind-ing course had just finished for the firsttime, and in a perfect tumult of soul, Schillers Robbers ; it was the power ofa great