The Task: Book Vi. -- The Winter Walk At Noon Poem Rhyme Scheme

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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds	A
And as the mind is pitch d the ear is pleased	B
With melting airs or martial brisk or grave	C
Some chord in unison with what we hear	D
Is touch d within us and the heart replies	E
How soft the music of those village bells	F
Falling at intervals upon the ear	D
In cadence sweet now dying all away	G
Now pealing loud again and louder still	H
Clear and sonorous as the gale comes on	I
With easy force it opens all the cells	F
Where Memory slept Wherever I have heard	J
A kindred melody the scene recurs	F
And with it all its pleasures and its pains	F
Such comprehensive views the spirit takes	F
That in a few short moments I retrace	F
As in a map the voyager his course	F
The windings of my way through many years	F
Short as in retrospect the journey seems	F
It seem d not always short the rugged path	K
And prospect oft so dreary and forlorn	L
Moved many a sigh at its disheartening length	M
Yet feeling present evils while the past	N
Faintly impress the mind or not at all	O
How readily we wish time spent revoked	P
That we might try the ground again where once	F
Through inexperience as we now perceive	Q
We miss d that happiness we might have found	R
Some friend is gone perhaps his son s best friend	S
A father whose authority in show	T
When most severe and mustering all its force	F
Was but the graver countenance of love	U
Whose favour like the clouds of spring might lower	V
And utter now and then an awful voice	F
But had a blessing in its darkest frown	W
Threatening at once and nourishing the plant	X
We loved but not enough the gentle hand	Y
That rear d us At a thoughtless age allured	Z
By every gilded folly we renounced	A2
His sheltering side and wilfully forewent	A2
That converse which we now in vain regret	A2
How gladly would the man recall to life	B2
The boy s neglected sire a mother too	A2
That softer friend perhaps more gladly still	H
Might he demand them at the gates of death	C2
Sorrow has since they went subdued and tamed	A2
The playful humour he could now endure	D2
Himself grown sober in the vale of tears	F
And feel a parent s presence no restraint	A2
But not to understand a treasure s worth	E2
Till time has stolen away the slighted good	A2
Is cause of half the poverty we feel	F2
And makes the world the wilderness it is	F
The few that pray at all pray oft amiss	F
And seeking grace to improve the prize they hold	A2
Would urge a wiser suit than asking more	G2
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The night was winter in its roughest mood	A2
The morning sharp and clear But now at noon	H2
Upon the southern side of the slant hills	F
And where the woods fence off the northern blast	A2
The season smiles resigning all its rage	I2
And has the warmth of May The vault is blue	A2
Without a cloud and white without a speck	J2
The dazzling splendour of the scene below	T
Again the harmony comes o er the vale	K2
And through the trees I view the embattled tower	V
Whence all the music I again perceive	Q
The soothing influence of the wafted strains	F
And settle in soft musings as I tread	A2
The walk still verdant under oaks and elms	F
Whose outspread branches overarch the glade	A2
The roof though moveable through all its length	M
As the wind sways it has yet well sufficed	A2
And intercepting in their silent fall	O
The frequent flakes has kept a path for me	L2
No noise is here or none that hinders thought	A2
The redbreast warbles still but is content	A2
With slender notes and more than half suppress d	L2
Pleased with his solitude and flitting light	A2
From spray to spray where er he rests he shakes	F
From many a twig the pendant drops of ice	F
That tinkle in the wither d leaves below	T
Stillness accompanied with sounds so soft	A2
Charms more than silence Meditation here	D
May think down hours to moments Here the heart	A2
May give a useful lesson to the head	A2
And Learning wiser grow without his books	F
Knowledge and Wisdom far from being one	M2
Have ofttimes no connexion Knowledge dwells	F
In heads replete with thoughts of other men	N2
Wisdom in minds attentive to their own	O2
Knowledge a rude unprofitable mass	F
The mere materials with which Wisdom builds	F
Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place	F
Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich	P2
Knowledge is proud that he has learn d so much	Q2
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more	G2
Books are not seldom talismans and spells	F
By which the magic art of shrewder wits	F
Holds an unthinking multitude enthrall d	L2
Some to the fascination of a name	R2
Surrender judgment hoodwink d Some the style	S2
Infatuates and through labyrinth and wilds	F
Of error leads them by a tune entranced	A2
While sloth seduces more too weak to bear	T2
The insupportable fatigue of thought	A2
And swallowing therefore without pause or choice	F
The total grist unsifted husks and all	O
But trees and rivulets whose rapid course	F
Defies the check of winter haunts of deer	U2
And sheepwalks populous with bleating lambs	F
And lanes in which the primrose ere her time	V2
Peeps through the moss that clothes the hawthorn root	A2
Deceive no student Wisdom there and truth	W2
Not shy as in the world and to be won	M2
By slow solicitation seize at once	F
The roving thought and fix it on themselves	F
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What prodigies can power divine perform	X2
More grand than it produces year by year	U2
And all in sight of inattentive man	Y2
Familiar with the effect we slight the cause	F
And in the constancy of nature s course	F
The regular return of genial months	F
And renovation of a faded world	A2
See nought to wonder at Should God again	N2
As once in Gibeon interrupt the race	F
Of the undeviating and punctual sun	M2
How would the world admire but speaks it less	F
An agency divine to make him know	T
His moment when to sink and when to rise	F
Age after age than to arrest his course	F
All we behold is miracle but seen	Z2
So duly all is miracle in vain	A3
Where now the vital energy that moved	A2
While summer was the pure and subtle lymph	B3
Through the imperceptible meandering veins	F
Of leaf and flower It sleeps and the icy touch	Q2
Of unprolific winter has impress d	L2
A cold stagnation on the intestine tide	A2
But let the months go round a few short months	F
And all shall be restored These naked shoots	F
Barren as lances among which the wind	A2
Makes wintry music sighing as it goes	F
Shall put their graceful foliage on again	N2
And more aspiring and with ampler spread	A2
Shall boast new charms and more than they have lost	A2
Then each in its peculiar honours clad	A2
Shall publish even to the distant eye	C3
Its family and tribe Laburnum rich	P2
In streaming gold syringa ivory pure	D2
The scentless and the scented rose this red	A2
And of an humbler growth the other tall	O
And throwing up into the darkest gloom	D3
Of neighbouring cypress or more sable yew	A2
Her silver globes light as the foamy surf	E3
That the wind severs from the broken wave	C
The lilac various in array now white	A2
Now sanguine and her beauteous head now set	A2
With purple spikes pyramidal as if	F3
Studious of ornament yet unresolved	A2
Which hue she most approved she chose them all	O
Copious of flowers the woodbine pale and wan	I
But well compensating her sickly looks	F
With never cloying odours early and late	A2
Hypericum all bloom so thick a swarm	X2
Of flowers like flies clothing her slender rods	F
That scarce a leaf appears mezereon too	A2
Though leafless well attired and thick beset	A2
With blushing wreaths investing every spray	G
Alth a with the purple eye the broom	D3
Yellow and bright as bullion unalloy d	L2
Her blossoms and luxuriant above all	O
The jasmine throwing wide her elegant sweets	F
The deep dark green of whose unvarnish d leaf	G3
Makes more conspicuous and illumines more	G2
The bright profusion of her scatter d stars	F
These have been and these shall be in their day	G
And all this uniform uncolour d scene	Z2
Shall be dismantled of its fleecy load	A2
And flush into variety again	N2
From dearth to plenty and from death to life	B2
Is Nature s progress when she lectures man	Y2
In heavenly truth evincing as she makes	F
The grand transition that there lives and works	F
A soul in all things and that soul is God	A2
The beauties of the wilderness are	H3

William Cowper

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