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FROM that time forth Authority in France	A
Put on a milder face Terror had ceased	B
Yet everything was wanting that might give	C
Courage to them who looked for good by light	D
Of rational Experience for the shoots	E
And hopeful blossoms of a second spring	F
Yet in me confidence was unimpaired	G
The Senate's language and the public acts	H
And measures of the Government though both	I
Weak and of heartless omen had not power	J
To daunt me in the People was my trust	K
And in the virtues which mine eyes had seen	L
I knew that wound external could not take	M
Life from the young Republic that new foes	N
Would only follow in the path of shame	O
Their brethren and her triumphs be in the end	P
Great universal irresistible	Q
This intuition led me to confound	R
One victory with another higher far	S
Triumphs of unambitious peace at home	T
And noiseless fortitude Beholding still	U
Resistance strong as heretofore I thought	V
That what was in degree the same was likewise	W
The same in quality that as the worse	X
Of the two spirits then at strife remained	Y
Untired the better surely would preserve	Z
The heart that first had roused him Youth maintains	A2
In all conditions of society	B2
Communion more direct and intimate	C2
With Nature hence ofttimes with reason too	D2
Than age or manhood even To Nature then	E2
Power had reverted habit custom law	F2
Had left an interregnum's open space	G2
For 'her' to move about in uncontrolled	H2
Hence could I see how Babel like their task	I2
Who by the recent deluge stupified	H2
With their whole souls went culling from the day	H2
Its petty promises to build a tower	J
For their own safety laughed with my compeers	G2
At gravest heads by enmity to France	G2
Distempered till they found in every blast	H2
Forced from the street disturbing newsman's horn	J2
For her great cause record or prophecy	G2
Of utter ruin How might we believe	K2
That wisdom could in any shape come near	L2
Men clinging to delusions so insane	M2
And thus experience proving that no few	D2
Of our opinions had been just we took	N2
Like credit to ourselves where less was due	D2
And thought that other notions were as sound	H2
Yea could not but be right because we saw	G2
That foolish men opposed them	O2
To a strain	M2
More animated I might here give way	H2
And tell since juvenile errors are my theme	P2
What in those days through Britain was performed	H2
To turn 'all' judgments out of their right course	G2
But this is passion over near ourselves	G2
Reality too close and too intense	G2
And intermixed with something in my mind	H2
Of scorn and condemnation personal	U
That would profane the sanctity of verse	G2
Our Shepherds this say merely at that time	Q2
Acted or seemed at least to act like men	E2
Thirsting to make the guardian crook of law	G2
A tool of murder they who ruled the State	H2
Though with such awful proof before their eyes	G2
That he who would sow death reaps death or worse	G2
And can reap nothing better child like longed	H2
To imitate not wise enough to avoid	H2
Or left by mere timidity betrayed	H2
The plain straight road for one no better chosen	R2
Than if their wish had been to undermine	S2
Justice and make an end of Liberty	G2
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But from these bitter truths I must return	T2
To my own history It hath been told	H2
That I was led to take an eager part	H2
In arguments of civil polity	G2
Abruptly and indeed before my time	Q2
I had approached like other youths the shield	H2
Of human nature from the golden side	H2
And would have fought even to the death to attest	H2
The quality of the metal which I saw	G2
What there is best in individual man	U2
Of wise in passion and sublime in power	J
Benevolent in small societies	G2
And great in large ones I had oft revolved	H2
Felt deeply but not thoroughly understood	H2
By reason nay far from it they were yet	H2
As cause was given me afterwards to learn	T2
Not proof against the injuries of the day	H2
Lodged only at the sanctuary's door	V2
Not safe within its bosom Thus prepared	H2
And with such general insight into evil	Q
And of the bounds which sever it from good	H2
As books and common intercourse with life	W2
Must needs have given to the inexperienced mind	H2
When the world travels in a beaten road	H2
Guide faithful as is needed I began	U2
To meditate with ardour on the rule	X2
And management of nations what it is	G2
And ought to be and strove to learn how far	S
Their power or weakness wealth or poverty	G2
Their happiness or misery depends	G2
Upon their laws and fashion of the State	H2
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O pleasant exercise of hope and joy	Y2
For mighty were the auxiliars which then stood	H2
Upon our side us who were strong in love	Z2
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive	A3
But to be young was very Heaven O times	G2
In which the meagre stale forbidding ways	G2
Of custom law and statute took at once	G2
The attraction of a country in romance	G2
When Reason seemed the most to assert her rights	G2
When most intent on making of herself	B3
A prime enchantress to assist the work	C3
Which then was going forward in her name	O
Not favoured spots alone but the whole Earth	D3
The beauty wore of promise that which sets	G2
As at some moments might not be unfelt	H2
Among the bowers of Paradise itself	B3
The budding rose above the rose full blown	E3
What temper at the prospect did not wake	M
To happiness unthought of The inert	H2
Were roused and lively natures rapt away	H2
They who had fed their childhood upon dreams	G2
The play fellows of fancy who had made	H2
All powers of swiftness subtilty and strength	F3
Their ministers who in lordly wise had stirred	H2
Among the grandest objects of the sense	G2
And dealt with whatsoever they found there	G3
As if they had within some lurking right	H2
To wield it they too who of gentle mood	H2
Had watched all gentle motions and to these	G2
Had fitted their own thoughts schemers more mild	H2
And in the region of their peaceful selves	G2
Now was it that 'both' found the meek and lofty	H2
Did both find helpers to their hearts' desire	J
And stuff at hand plastic as they could wish	H3
Were called upon to exercise their skill	U
Not in Utopia subterranean fields	G2
Or some secreted island Heaven knows where	G3
But in the very world which is the world	H2
Of all of us the place where in the end	H2
We find our happiness or not at all	I3
	-
Why should I not confess that Earth was then	E2
To me what an inheritance new fallen	R2
Seems when the first time visited to one	R2
Who thither comes to find in it his home	T
He walks about and looks upon the spot	H2
With cordial transport moulds it and remoulds	G2
And is half pleased with things that are amiss	G2
'Twill be such joy to see them disappear	L2
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An active partisan I thus convoked	H2
From every object pleasant circumstance	G2
To suit my ends I moved among mankind	H2
With genial feelings still predominant	H2
When erring erring on the better part	H2
And in the kinder spirit placable	I3
Indulgent as not uninformed that men	E2
See as they have been taught Antiquity	H2
Gives rights to error and aware no less	G2
That throwing off oppression must be work	C3
As well of License as of Liberty	H2
And above all for this was more than all	I3
Not caring if the wind did now and then	E2
Blow keen upon an eminence that gave	J3
Prospect so large into futurity	H2
In brief a child of Nature as at first	H2
Diffusing only those affections wider	J
That from the cradle had grown up with me	H2
And losing in no other way than light	H2
Is lost in light the weak in the more strong	K3
	-
In the main outline such it might be said	H2
Was my condition till with open war	V2
Britain opposed the liberties of France	G2
This threw me first out of the pale of love	Z2
Soured and corrupted upwards to the source	G2
My sentiments was not as hitherto	H2
A swallowing up of lesser things in great	H2
But change of them into their contraries	G2
And thus a way was opened for mistakes	G2
And false conclusions in degree as gross	G2
In kind more dangerous What had been a pride	H2
Was now a shame my likings and my loves	G2
Ran in new channels leaving old ones dry	L3
And hence a blow that in mat	H2

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