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In one of those excursions may they ne'er	A
Fade from remembrance through the Northern tracts	B
Of Cambria ranging with a youthful friend	C
I left Bethgelert's huts at couching time	D
And westward took my way to see the sun	E
Rise from the top of Snowdon To the door	F
Of a rude cottage at the mountain's base	G
We came and roused the shepherd who attends	H
The adventurous stranger's steps a trusty guide	I
Then cheered by short refreshment sallied forth	J
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It was a close warm breezeless summer night	K
Wan dull and glaring with a dripping fog	L
Low hung and thick that covered all the sky	M
But undiscouraged we began to climb	D
The mountain side The mist soon girt us round	N
And after ordinary travellers' talk	O
With our conductor pensively we sank	P
Each into commerce with his private thoughts	Q
Thus did we breast the ascent and by myself	R
Was nothing either seen or heard that checked	S
Those musings or diverted save that once	T
The shepherd's lurcher who among the crags	T
Had to his joy unearthed a hedgehog teased	U
His coiled up prey with barkings turbulent	V
This small adventure for even such it seemed	W
In that wild place and at the dead of night	K
Being over and forgotten on we wound	N
In silence as before With forehead bent	X
Earthward as if in opposition set	Y
Against an enemy I panted up	Z
With eager pace and no less eager thoughts	T
Thus might we wear a midnight hour away	A2
Ascending at loose distance each from each	B2
And I as chanced the foremost of the band	C2
When at my feet the ground appeared to brighten	E
And with a step or two seemed brighter still	D2
Nor was time given to ask or learn the cause	T
For instantly a light upon the turf	E2
Fell like a flash and lo as I looked up	Z
The Moon hung naked in a firmament	C2
Of azure without cloud and at my feet	C2
Rested a silent sea of hoary mist	C2
A hundred hills their dusky backs upheaved	C2
All over this still ocean and beyond	C2
Far far beyond the solid vapours stretched	C2
In headlands tongues and promontory shapes	T
Into the main Atlantic that appeared	C2
To dwindle and give up his majesty	C2
Usurped upon far as the sight could reach	B2
Not so the ethereal vault encroachment none	E
Was there nor loss only the inferior stars	T
Had disappeared or shed a fainter light	C2
In the clear presence of the full orbed Moon	F2
Who from her sovereign elevation gazed	C2
Upon the billowy ocean as it lay	A2
All meek and silent save that through a rift	C2
Not distant from the shore whereon we stood	C2
A fixed abysmal gloomy breathing place	T
Mounted the roar of waters torrents streams	T
Innumerable roaring with one voice	T
Heard over earth and sea and in that hour	G2
For so it seemed felt by the starry heavens	T
	-
When into air had partially dissolved	C2
That vision given to spirits of the night	C2
And three chance human wanderers in calm thought	C2
Reflected it appeared to me the type	H2
Of a majestic intellect its acts	T
And its possessions what it has and craves	T
What in itself it is and would become	I2
There I beheld the emblem of a mind	C2
That feeds upon infinity that broods	T
Over the dark abyss intent to hear	J2
Its voices issuing forth to silent light	C2
In one continuous stream a mind sustained	C2
By recognitions of transcendent power	G2
In sense conducting to ideal form	K2
In soul of more than mortal privilege	L2
One function above all of such a mind	C2
Had Nature shadowed there by putting forth	J
'Mid circumstances awful and sublime	D
That mutual domination which she loves	T
To exert upon the face of outward things	T
So moulded joined abstracted so endowed	C2
With interchangeable supremacy	T
That men least sensitive see hear perceive	M2
And cannot choose but feel The power which all	N2
Acknowledge when thus moved which Nature thus	T
To bodily sense exhibits is the express	T
Resemblance of that glorious faculty	T
That higher minds bear with them as their own	O2
This is the very spirit in which they deal	P2
With the whole compass of the universe	T
They from their native selves can send abroad	C2
Kindred mutations for themselves create	C2
A like existence and whene'er it dawns	T
Created for them catch it or are caught	C2
By its inevitable mastery	T
Like angels stopped upon the wing by sound	C2
Of harmony from Heaven's remotest spheres	T
Them the enduring and the transient both	Q2
Serve to exalt they build up greatest things	T
From least suggestions ever on the watch	R2
Willing to work and to be wrought upon	S2
They need not extraordinary calls	T
To rouse them in a world of life they live	T2
By sensible impressions not enthralled	C2
But by their quickening impulse made more prompt	C2
To hold fit converse with the spiritual world	C2
And with the generations of mankind	C2
Spread over time past present and to come	I2
Age after age till Time shall be no more	F
Such minds are truly from the Deity	T
For they are Powers and hence the highest bliss	T
That flesh can know is theirs the consciousness	T
Of Whom they are habitually infused	C2
Through every image and through every thought	C2
And all affections by communion raised	C2
From earth to heaven from human to divine	U2
Hence endless occupation for the Soul	V2
Whether discursive or intuitive	W2
Hence cheerfulness for acts of daily life	X2
Emotions which best foresight need not fear	Y2
Most worthy then of trust when most intense	T
Hence amid ills that vex and wrongs that crush	Z2
Our hearts if here the words of Holy Writ	C2
May with fit reverence be applied that peace	T
Which passeth understanding that repose	T
In moral judgments which from this pure source	T
Must come or will by man be sought in vain	A3
	-
Oh who is he that hath his whole life long	B3
Preserved enlarged this freedom in himself	R
For this alone is genuine liberty	T
Where is the favoured being who hath held	C2
That course unchecked unerring and untired	C2
In one perpetual progress smooth and bright	C2
A humbler destiny have we retraced	C2
And told of lapse and hesitating choice	T
And backward wanderings along thorny ways	T
Yet compassed round by mountain solitudes	T
Within whose solemn temple I received	C2
My earliest visitations careless then	C3
Of what was given me and which now I range	D3
A meditative oft a suffering man	E3
Do I declare in accents which from truth	F3
Deriving cheerful confidence shall blend	C2
Their modulation with these vocal streams	T
That whatsoever falls my better mind	C2
Revolving with the accidents of life	X2
May have sustained that howsoe'er misled	C2
Never did I in quest of right and wrong	B3
Tamper with conscience from a private aim	G3
Nor was in any public hope the dupe	H3
Of selfish passions nor did ever yield	C2
Wilfully to mean cares or low pursuits	T
But shrunk with apprehensive jealousy	T
From every combination which might aid	C2
The tendency too potent in itself	R
Of use and custom to bow down the soul	V2
Under a growing weight of vulgar sense	T
And substitute a universe of death	I3
For that which moves with light and life informed	C2
Actual divine and true To fear and love	J3
To love as prime and chief for there fear ends	T
Be this ascribed to early intercourse	T
In presence of sublime or beautiful forms	T
With the adverse principles of pain and joy	K3
Evil as one is rashly named by men	C3
Who know not what they speak By love subsists	T
All lasting grandeur by pervading love	J3
That gone we are as dust Behold the fields	T
In balmy spring time full of rising flowers	T
And joyous creatures see that pair the lamb	L3
And the lamb's mother and their tender ways	T
Shall touch thee to the heart thou callest this love	J3
And not inaptly so for love it is	T
Far as it carries thee In some green bower	G2
Rest and be not alone but have thou there	A
The One who is thy choice of all the world	C2
There linger listening gazing with delight	C2
Impassioned but delight how pitiable	M3
Unless this love by a still higher love	J3
Be hallowed love that breathes not without awe	N3
Love that adores but on the knees of prayer	A
By heaven inspired that frees from chains the soul	V2
Lifted	C2

William Wordsworth

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