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OH there is blessing in this gentle breeze	A
A visitant that while it fans my cheek	B
Doth seem half conscious of the joy it brings	C
From the green fields and from yon azure sky	D
Whate'er its mission the soft breeze can come	E
To none more grateful than to me escaped	F
From the vast city where I long had pined	G
A discontented sojourner now free	H
Free as a bird to settle where I will	I
What dwelling shall receive me in what vale	J
Shall be my harbour underneath what grove	K
Shall I take up my home and what clear stream	L
Shall with its murmur lull me into rest	M
The earth is all before me With a heart	N
Joyous nor scared at its own liberty	H
I look about and should the chosen guide	O
Be nothing better than a wandering cloud	P
I cannot miss my way I breathe again	Q
Trances of thought and mountings of the mind	G
Come fast upon me it is shaken off	R
That burthen of my own unnatural self	S
The heavy weight of many a weary day	T
Not mine and such as were not made for me	H
Long months of peace if such bold word accord	U
With any promises of human life	V
Long months of ease and undisturbed delight	W
Are mine in prospect whither shall I turn	X
By road or pathway or through trackless field	Y
Up hill or down or shall some floating thing	Z
Upon the river point me out my course	A2
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Dear Liberty Yet what would it avail	J
But for a gift that consecrates the joy	B2
For I methought while the sweet breath of heaven	C2
Was blowing on my body felt within	D2
A correspondent breeze that gently moved	E2
With quickening virtue but is now become	E
A tempest a redundant energy	H
Vexing its own creation Thanks to both	F2
And their congenial powers that while they join	G2
In breaking up a long continued frost	H2
Bring with them vernal promises the hope	I2
Of active days urged on by flying hours	J2
Days of sweet leisure taxed with patient thought	K2
Abstruse nor wanting punctual service high	D
Matins and vespers of harmonious verse	L2
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Thus far O Friend did I not used to make	M2
A present joy the matter of a song	N2
Pour forth that day my soul in measured strains	O2
That would not be forgotten and are here	P2
Recorded to the open fields I told	Q2
A prophecy poetic numbers came	R2
Spontaneously to clothe in priestly robe	S2
A renovated spirit singled out	T2
Such hope was mine for holy services	U2
My own voice cheered me and far more the mind's	V2
Internal echo of the imperfect sound	W2
To both I listened drawing from them both	F2
A cheerful confidence in things to come	E
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Content and not unwilling now to give	X2
A respite to this passion I paced on	Y2
With brisk and eager steps and came at length	Z2
To a green shady place where down I sate	A3
Beneath a tree slackening my thoughts by choice	B3
And settling into gentler happiness	C3
'Twas autumn and a clear and placid day	T
With warmth as much as needed from a sun	C2
Two hours declined towards the west a day	T
With silver clouds and sunshine on the grass	D3
And in the sheltered and the sheltering grove	K
A perfect stillness Many were the thoughts	E3
Encouraged and dismissed till choice was made	F3
Of a known Vale whither my feet should turn	X
Nor rest till they had reached the very door	G3
Of the one cottage which methought I saw	H3
No picture of mere memory ever looked	I3
So fair and while upon the fancied scene	J3
I gazed with growing love a higher power	K3
Than Fancy gave assurance of some work	L3
Of glory there forthwith to be begun	C2
Perhaps too there performed Thus long I mused	M3
Nor e'er lost sight of what I mused upon	Y2
Save when amid the stately grove of oaks	N3
Now here now there an acorn from its cup	O3
Dislodged through sere leaves rustled or at once	P3
To the bare earth dropped with a startling sound	W2
From that soft couch I rose not till the sun	C2
Had almost touched the horizon casting then	Q
A backward glance upon the curling cloud	P
Of city smoke by distance ruralised	P
Keen as a Truant or a Fugitive	X2
But as a Pilgrim resolute I took	Q3
Even with the chance equipment of that hour	K3
The road that pointed toward the chosen Vale	J
It was a splendid evening and my soul	R3
Once more made trial of her strength nor lacked	P
Aeolian visitations but the harp	S3
Was soon defrauded and the banded host	P
Of harmony dispersed in straggling sounds	T3
And lastly utter silence 'Be it so	U3
Why think of anything but present good '	-
So like a home bound labourer I pursued	P
My way beneath the mellowing sun that shed	P
Mild influence nor left in me one wish	V3
Again to bend the Sabbath of that time	W3
To a servile yoke What need of many words	X3
A pleasant loitering journey through three days	Y3
Continued brought me to my hermitage	Z3
I spare to tell of what ensued the life	V
In common things the endless store of things	C
Rare or at least so seeming every day	P
Found all about me in one neighbourhood	P
The self congratulation and from morn	A4
To night unbroken cheerfulness serene	J3
But speedily an earnest longing rose	B4
To brace myself to some determined aim	R2
Reading or thinking either to lay up	O3
New stores or rescue from decay the old	P
By timely interference and therewith	Z2
Came hopes still higher that with outward life	V
I might endue some airy phantasies	B4
That had been floating loose about for years	B4
And to such beings temperately deal forth	Z2
The many feelings that oppressed my heart	P
That hope hath been discouraged welcome light	P
Dawns from the east but dawns to disappear	C4
And mock me with a sky that ripens not	P
Into a steady morning if my mind	P
Remembering the bold promise of the past	P
Would gladly grapple with some noble theme	L
Vain is her wish where'er she turns she finds	B4
Impediments from day to day renewed	P
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And now it would content me to yield up	O3
Those lofty hopes awhile for present gifts	B4
Of humbler industry But oh dear Friend	P
The Poet gentle creature as he is	B4
Hath like the Lover his unruly times	B4
His fits when he is neither sick nor well	D4
Though no distress be near him but his own	E4
Unmanageable thoughts his mind best pleased	P
While she as duteous as the mother dove	F4
Sits brooding lives not always to that end	P
But like the innocent bird hath goadings on	Y2
That drive her as in trouble through the groves	B4
With me is now such passion to be blamed	P
No otherwise than as it lasts too long	N2
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When as becomes a man who would prepare	G4
For such an arduous work I through myself	S
Make rigorous inquisition the report	P
Is often cheering for I neither seem	L
To lack that first great gift the vital soul	R3
Nor general Truths which are themselves a sort	P
Of Elements and Agents Under powers	B4
Subordinate helpers of the living mind	P
Nor am I naked of external things	B4
Forms images nor numerous other aids	B4
Of less regard though won perhaps with toil	H4
And needful to build up a Poet's praise	B4
Time place and manners do I seek and these	B4
Are found in plenteous store but nowhere such	I4
As may be singled out with steady choice	B4
No little band of yet remembered names	B4
Whom I in perfect confidence might hope	I2
To summon back from lonesome banishment	P
And make them dwellers in the hearts of men	Q
Now living or to live in future years	B4
Sometimes the ambitious Power of choice mistaking	Z
Proud spring tide swellings for a regular sea	B4
Will settle on some British theme some old	P
Romantic tale by Milton left unsung	J4
More often turning to some gentle place	B4
Within the groves of Chivalry I pipe	K4
To shepherd swains or seated harp in hand	P
Amid reposing knights by a river side	P
Or fountain listen to the grave reports	B4
Of dire enchantments faced and overcome	E
By the strong mind and tales of warlike feats	B4
Where spear encountered spear and sword with sword	P
Fought as if conscious of the blazonry	G4
That the shield bore so glorious was the strife	V
Whence inspiration for a song that winds	B4
Through ever changing scenes of votive quest	P
Wrongs to redress harmonious tribute paid	P
To patient courage and unblemished truth	Z2
To firm devotion zeal unquenchable	H4
And Christian meekness hallowing faithful lo	H4

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