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The young Lady to whom this was addressed was my Sister It was	A
composed at school and during my two first College vacations	B
There is not an image in it which I have not observed and now in	C
my seventy third year I recollect the time and place where most	D
of them were noticed I will confine myself to one instance	E
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Waving his hat the shepherd from the vale	F
Directs his winding dog the cliffs to scale	F
The dog loud barking 'mid the glittering rocks	G
Hunts where his master points the intercepted flocks	G
	-
I was an eye witness of this for the first time while crossing the	H
Pass of Dunmail Raise Upon second thought I will mention another	I
image	J
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And fronting the bright west yon oak entwines	G
Its darkening boughs and leaves in stronger lines	G
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This is feebly and imperfectly expressed but I recollect	K
distinctly the very spot where this first struck me It was in the	H
way between Hawkshead and Ambleside and gave me extreme pleasure	I
The moment was important in my poetical history for I date from	L
it my consciousness of the infinite variety of natural appearances	G
which had been unnoticed by the poets of any age or country so	G
far as I was acquainted with them and I made a resolution to	M
supply in some degree the deficiency I could not have been at	N
that time above fourteen years of age The description of the	H
swans that follows was taken from the daily opportunities I had	O
of observing their habits not as confined to the gentleman's	G
park but in a state of nature There were two pairs of them that	N
divided the lake of Esthwaite and its in and out flowing streams	G
between them never trespassing a single yard upon each other's	G
separate domain They were of the old magnificent species bearing	P
in beauty and majesty about the same relation to the Thames swan	Q
which that does to the goose It was from the remembrance of those	G
noble creatures I took thirty years after the picture of the	H
swan which I have discarded from the poem of Dion While I was a	H
schoolboy the late Mr Curwen introduced a little fleet of those	G
birds but of the inferior species to the lake of Windermere	I
Their principal home was about his own island but they sailed	R
about into remote parts of the lake and either from real or	I
imagined injury done to the adjoining fields they were got rid of	S
at the request of the farmers and proprietors but to the great	T
regret of all who had become attached to them from noticing their	I
beauty and quiet habits I will conclude my notice of this poem by	U
observing that the plan of it has not been confined to a	H
particular walk or an individual place a proof of which I was	G
unconscious at the time of my unwillingness to submit the poetic	V
spirit to the chains of fact and real circumstance The country is	G
idealised rather than described in any one of its local aspects	G
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General Sketch of the Lakes Author's regret of his youth which	W
was passed amongst them Short description of Noon Cascade	X
Noontide Retreat Precipice and sloping Lights Face of Nature as	G
the Sun declines Mountain farm and the Cock Slate quarry	I
Sunset Superstition of the Country connected with that moment	Y
Swans Female Beggar Twilight sounds Western Lights Spirits	G
Night Moonlight Hope Night sounds Conclus ion	Z
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FAR from my dearest Friend 'tis mine to rove	A2
Through bare grey dell high wood and pastoral cove	A2
Where Derwent rests and listens to the roar	I
That stuns the tremulous cliffs of high Lodore	I
Where peace to Grasmere's lonely island leads	G
To willowy hedge rows and to emerald meads	G
Leads to her bridge rude church and cottaged grounds	G
Her rocky sheepwalks and her woodland bounds	G
Where undisturbed by winds Winander sleeps	G
'Mid clustering isles and holly sprinkled steeps	G
Where twilight glens endear my Esthwaite's shore	I
And memory of departed pleasures more	I
Fair scenes erewhile I taught a happy child	B2
The echoes of your rocks my carols wild	B2
The spirit sought not then in cherished sadness	G
A cloudy substitute for failing gladness	G
In youth's keen eye the livelong day was bright	C2
The sun at morning and the stars at night	C2
Alike when first the bittern's hollow bill	D2
Was heard or woodcocks roamed the moonlight hill	D2
In thoughtless gaiety I coursed the plain	E2
And hope itself was all I knew of pain	E2
For then the inexperienced heart would beat	F2
At times while young Content forsook her seat	F2
And wild Impatience pointing upward showed	G2
Through passes yet unreached a brighter road	G2
Alas the idle tale of man is found	H2
Depicted in the dial's moral round	H2
Hope with reflection blends her social rays	G
To gild the total tablet of his days	G
Yet still the sport of some malignant power	I
He knows but from its shade the present hour	I
But why ungrateful dwell on idle pain	E2
To show what pleasures yet to me remain	E2
Say will my Friend with unreluctant ear	I
The history of a poet's evening hear	I
When in the south the wan noon brooding still	D2
Breathed a pale steam around the glaring hill	D2
And shades of deep embattled clouds were seen	I2
Spotting the northern cliffs with lights between	I2
When crowding cattle checked by rails that make	J2
A fence far stretched into the shallow lake	J2
Lashed the cool water with their restless tails	G
Or from high points of rock looked out for fanning gales	G
When school boys stretched their length upon the green	I2
And round the broad spread oak a glimmering scene	I2
In the rough fern clad park the herded deer	I
Shook the still twinkling tail and glancing ear	I
When horses in the sunburnt intake stood	K2
And vainly eyed below the tempting flood	L2
Or tracked the passenger in mute distress	G
With forward neck the closing gate to press	G
Then while I wandered where the huddling rill	D2
Brightens with water breaks the hollow ghyll	D2
As by enchantment an obscure retreat	F2
Opened at once and stayed my devious feet	F2
While thick above the rill the branches close	G
In rocky basin its wild waves repose	G
Inverted shrubs and moss of gloomy green	I2
Cling from the rocks with pale wood weeds between	I2
And its own twilight softens the whole scene	I2
Save where aloft the subtle sunbeams shine	M2
On withered briars that o'er the crags recline	M2
Save where with sparkling foam a small cascade	X
Illumines from within the leafy shade	X
Beyond along the vista of the brook	N2
Where antique roots its bustling course o'erlook	N2
The eye reposes on a secret bridge	O2
Half grey half shagged with ivy to its ridge	O2
There bending o'er the stream the listless swain	E2
Lingers behind his disappearing wain	E2
Did Sabine grace adorn my living line	M2
Blandusia's praise wild stream should yield to thine	M2
Never shall ruthless minister of death	P2
'Mid thy soft glooms the glittering steel unsheath	P2
No goblets shall for thee be crowned with flowers	G
No kid with piteous outcry thrill thy bowers	G
The mystic shapes that by thy margin rove	A2
A more benignant sacrifice approve	Q2
A mind that in a calm angelic mood	R2
Of happy wisdom meditating good	K2
Beholds of all from her high powers required	S2
Much done and much designed and more desired	S2
Harmonious thoughts a soul by truth refined	T2
Entire affection for all human kind	T2
Dear Brook farewell To morrow's noon again	U2
Shall hide me wooing long thy wildwood strain	E2
But now the sun has gained his western road	G2
And eve's mild hour invites my steps abroad	V2
While near the midway cliff the silvered kite	C2
In many a whistling circle wheels her flight	C2
Slant watery lights from parting clouds apace	G
Travel along the precipice's base	G
Cheering its naked waste of scattered stone	W2
By lichens grey and scanty moss o'ergrown	W2
Where scarce the foxglove peeps or thistle's beard	X2
And restless stone chat all day long is heard	S2
How pleasant as the sun declines to view	M
The spacious landscape change in form and hue	M
Here vanish as in mist before a flood	L2
Of bright obscurity hill lawn and wood	K2

William Wordsworth

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