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Written in April during the alarm of an invasion	A
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A green and silent spot amid the hills	B
A small and silent dell O'er stiller place	C
No singing skylark ever poised himself	D
The hills are heathy save that swelling slope	E
Which hath a gay and gorgeous covering on	F
All golden with the never bloomless furze	C
Which now blooms most profusely but the dell	G
Bathed by the mist is fresh and delicate	H
As vernal cornfield or the unripe flax	C
When through its half transparent stalks at eve	I
The level sunshine glimmers with green light	J
Oh 'tis a quiet spirit healing nook	K
Which all methinks would love but chiefly he	L
The humble man who in his youthful years	C
Knew just so much of folly as had made	M
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His early manhood more securely wise	C
Here he might lie on fern or withered heath	N
While from the singing lark that sings unseen	O
The minstrelsy that solitude loves best	P
And from the sun and from the breezy air	Q
Sweet influences trembled o'er his frame	R
And he with many feelings many thoughts	C
Made up a meditative joy and found	S
Religious meanings in the forms of Nature	T
And so his senses gradually wrapped	U
In a half sleep he dreams of better worlds	C
And dreaming hears thee still O singing lark	V
That singest like an angel in the clouds	C
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My God it is a melancholy thing	W
For such a man who would full fain preserve	X
His soul in calmness yet perforce must feel	Y
For all his human brethren O my God	Z
It weighs upon the heart that he must think	A2
What uproar and what strife may now be stirring	W
This way or that way o'er these silent hills	C
Invasion and the thunder and the shout	B2
And all the crash of onset fear and rage	C2
And undetermined conflict even now	D2
Even now perchance and in his native isle	E2
Carnage and groans beneath this blessed sun	A
We have offended Oh my countrymen	F2
We have offended very grievously	L
And been most tyrannous From east to west	P
A groan of accusation pierces Heaven	A
The wretched plead against us multitudes	C
Countless and vehement the sons of God	Z
Our brethren Like a cloud that travels on	F
Steamed up from Cairo's swamps of pestilence	C
Even so my countrymen have we gone forth	G2
And borne to distant tribes slavery and pangs	C
And deadlier far our vices whose deep taint	H2
With slow perdition murders the whole man	I2
His body and his soul Meanwhile at home	J2
All individual dignity and power	T
Engulfed in Courts Committees Institutions	C
Associations and Societies	C
A vain speech mouthing speech reporting Guild	K2
One Benefit Club for mutual flattery	L
We have drunk up demure as at a grace	C
Pollutions from the brimming cup of wealth	L2
Contemptuous of all honourable rule	M2
Yet bartering freedom and the poor man's life	N2
For gold as at a market The sweet words	C
Of Christian promise words that even yet	O2
Might stem destruction were they wisely preached	P2
Are muttered o'er by men whose tones proclaim	R
How flat and wearisome they feel their trade	M
Rank scoffers some but most too indolent	Q2
To deem them falsehoods or to know their truth	R2
Oh blasphemous the Book of Life is made	M
A superstitious instrument on which	S2
We gabble o'er the oaths we mean to break	T2
For all must swear all and in every place	C
College and wharf council and justice court	U2
All all must swear the briber and the bribed	V2
Merchant and lawyer senator and priest	W2
The rich the poor the old man and the young	X2
All all make up one scheme of perjury	L
That faith doth reel the very name of God	Z
Sounds like a juggler's charm and bold with joy	Y2
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding place	C
Portentous sight the owlet Atheism	Z2
Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon	A3
Drops his blue fringed lids and holds them close	C
And hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven	A
Cries out Where is it	B3
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Thankless too for peace	C
Peace long preserved by fleets and perilous seas	C
Secure from actual warfare we have loved	C3
To swell the war whoop passionate for war	D3
Alas for ages ignorant of all	E3
Its ghastlier workings famine or blue plague	F3
Battle or siege or flight through wintry snows	C
We this whole people have been clamorous	C
For war and bloodshed animating sports	C
The which we pay for as a thing to talk of	G3
Spectators and not combatants No guess	C
Anticipative of a wrong unfelt	C3
No speculation on contingency	C
However dim and vague too vague and dim	H3
To yield a justifying cause and forth	G2
Stuffed out with big preamble holy names	C
And adjurations of the God in Heaven	A
We send our mandates for the certain death	I3
Of thousands and ten thousands Boys and girls	C
And women that would groan to see a child	C3
Pull off an insect's leg all read of war	D3
The best amusement for our morning meal	Y
The poor wretch who has learnt his only prayers	C
From curses who knows scarcely words enough	J3
To ask a blessing from his Heavenly Father	T
Becomes a fluent phraseman absolute	C3
And technical in victories and defeats	C
And all our dainty terms for fratricide	C3
Terms which we trundle smoothly o'er our tongues	C
Like mere abstractions empty sounds to which	S2
We join no feeling and attach no form	K3
As if the soldier died without a wound	C3
As if the fibres of this godlike frame	R
Were gored without a pang as if the wretch	S2
Who fell in battle doing bloody deeds	C
Passed off to Heaven translated and not killed	C3
As though he had no wife to pine for him	H3
No God to judge him Therefore evil days	C
Are coming on us O my countrymen	F2
And what if all avenging Providence	C
Strong and retributive should make us know	L3
The meaning of our words force us to feel	Y
The desolation and the agony	C
Of our fierce doings	C
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Spare us yet awhile	E2
Father and God O spare us yet awhile	E2
Oh let not English women drag their flight	C3
Fainting beneath the burthen of their babes	C
Of the sweet infants that but yesterday	C3
Laughed at the breast Sons brothers husbands all	E3
Who ever gazed with fondness on the forms	C
Which grew up with you round the same fireside	C3
And all who ever heard the Sabbath bells	C
Without the Infidel's scorn make yourselves pure	M3
Stand forth be men repel an impious foe	L3
Impious and false a light yet cruel race	C
Who laugh away all virtue mingling mirth	N3
With deeds of murder and still promising	W
Freedom themselves too sensual to be free	C
Poison life's amities and cheat the heart	C3
Of faith and quiet hope and all that soothes	C
And all that lifts the spirit Stand we forth	G2
Render them back upon the insulted ocean	A
And let them toss as idly on its waves	C
As the vile seaweed which some mountain blast	C3
Swept from our shores And oh may we return	O3
Not with a drunken triumph but with fear	P3
Repenting of the wrongs with which we stung	X2
So fierce a foe to frenzy	C
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I have told	C3
O Britons O my brethren I have told	C3
Most bitter truth but without bitterness	C
Nor deem my zeal or fractious or mistimed	C3
For never can true courage dwell with them	Q3
Who playing tricks with conscience dare not look	K
At their own vices We have been too long	R3
Dupes of a deep delusion Some belike	R3
Groaning with restless enmity expect	C3
All change from change of constituted power	T
As if a Government had been a robe	S3
On which our vice and wretchedness were tagged	C3
Like fancy points and fringes with the robe	S3
Pulled off at pleasure Fondly these attach	S2
A radical causation to a few	T3
Poor drudges of chastising Providence	C
Who borrow all their hues and qualities	C
From our own folly and rank wickedness	C
Which gave them birth and nursed them Others meanwhile	E2
Dote with a mad idolatry and all	E3
Who will not fall before their images	C
And yield them worship they are enemies	C
Even of their country	C
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Such have I been deemed	C3
But O dear Britain O my Mother Isle	E2
Needs must thou prove a name most dear and holy	C
To me a son a brother and a friend	C3
A husband and a father who revere	P3
All bonds of natural love and find them all	E3
Within the limits ot thy rocky shores	C
O native Britain O my Mother Isle	E2
How shouldst thou prove aught else but dear and holy	C
To me who from thy lakes and mountain hills	C
Thy clouds thy quiet dales thy rocks and seas	C
Have drunk in all my intellectual life	N2
All sweet sensations all ennobling thoughts	C
All adoration of the God in nature	T
All lovely and all honourable things	C
Whatever makes this mortal spirit feel	Y
The joy and greatness of its future being	R3
There lives nor form nor feeling in my soul	U3
Unborrowed from my country O divine	V3
And beauteous Island thou hast been my sole	U3
And most magnificent temple in the which	S2
I walk with awe and sing my stately songs	C
Loving the God that made me	C
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May my fears	C
My filial fears be vain and may the vaunts	C
And menace of the vengeful enemy	C
Pass like the gust that roared and died away	C3
In the distant tree which heard and only heard	C3
In this low dell bowed not the delicate grass	C
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But now the gentle dew fall sends abroad	C3
The fruit like perfume of the golden furze	C
The light has left the summit of the hill	W3
Though still a sunny gleam lies beautiful	X3
Aslant the ivied beacon Now farewell	G
Farewell awhile O soft and silent spot	C3
On the green sheep track up the heathy hill	W3
Homeward I wind my way and lo recalled	C3
From bodings that have well nigh wearied me	C
I find myself upon the brow and pause	C
Startled And after lonely sojourning	R3
In such a quiet and surrounded nook	R3
This burst of prospect here the shadowy main	Y3
Dim tinted there the mighty majesty	C
Of that huge amphitheatre of rich	S2
And elmy fields seems like society	C
Conversing with the mind and giving it	C3
A livelier impulse and a dance of thought	C3
And now beloved Stowey I behold	C3
Thy church tower and methinks the four huge elms	C
Clustering which mark the mansion of my friend	C3
And close behind them hidden from my view	T3
Is my own lowly cottage where my babe	Z3
And my babe's mother dwell in peace With light	C3
And quickened footsteps thitherward I tend	C3
Remembering thee O green and silent dell	G
And grateful that by nature's quietness	C
And solitary musings all my heart	C3
Is softened and made worthy to indulge	A4
Love and the thoughts that yearn for human kind	C3