The History of Existing Things

Those hallowed and pure motions of the sense
Which seem, in their simplicity, to own
An intellectual charm; that calm delight
Which, if I err not, surely must belong
To those first-born affinities that fit
Our new existence to existing things




-William Wordsworth




In a carved wooden box, on a shelf are things that would mean little to most  There are a couple of neatly posted pieces of