Wordsworth's Tribute to John Wycliffe



Dr. John Wycliffe
"Morning Star
of the Reformation"


Wordsworth’s tribute to John Wycliffe:




“Wycliffe is disinterred,

Yea, his dry bones to ashes are consumed,

And flung into the brook that travels near:

Forthwith that ancient Voice which streams can hear

Thus speaks—(that Voice which walks upon the wind,

Though seldom heard by busy human kind),

As thou these ashes, little brook