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BRIGHT was the summer's noon when quickening steps	A
Followed each other till a dreary moor	B
Was crossed a bare ridge clomb upon whose top	C
Standing alone as from a rampart's edge	D
I overlooked the bed of Windermere	B
Like a vast river stretching in the sun	E
With exultation at my feet I saw	F
Lake islands promontories gleaming bays	G
A universe of Nature's fairest forms	H
Proudly revealed with instantaneous burst	I
Magnificent and beautiful and gay	J
I bounded down the hill shouting amain	E
For the old Ferryman to the shout the rocks	K
Replied and when the Charon of the flood	L
Had staid his oars and touched the jutting pier	B
I did not step into the well known boat	M
Without a cordial greeting Thence with speed	N
Up the familiar hill I took my way	J
Towards that sweet Valley where I had been reared	O
'Twas but a short hour's walk ere veering round	P
I saw the snow white church upon her hill	Q
Sit like a throned Lady sending out	R
A gracious look all over her domain	E
Yon azure smoke betrays the lurking town	E
With eager footsteps I advance and reach	S
The cottage threshold where my journey closed	T
Glad welcome had I with some tears perhaps	U
From my old Dame so kind and motherly	V
While she perused me with a parent's pride	W
The thoughts of gratitude shall fall like dew	X
Upon thy grave good creature While my heart	Y
Can beat never will I forget thy name	Z
Heaven's blessing be upon thee where thou liest	Y
After thy innocent and busy stir	B
In narrow cares thy little daily growth	A2
Of calm enjoyments after eighty years	B2
And more than eighty of untroubled life	C2
Childless yet by the strangers to thy blood	Y
Honoured with little less than filial love	D2
What joy was mine to see thee once again	E
Thee and thy dwelling and a crowd of things	E2
About its narrow precincts all beloved	Y
And many of them seeming yet my own	E
Why should I speak of what a thousand hearts	F2
Have felt and every man alive can guess	G2
The rooms the court the garden were not left	Y
Long unsaluted nor the sunny seat	Y
Round the stone table under the dark pine	E
Friendly to studious or to festive hours	H2
Nor that unruly child of mountain birth	I2
The famous brook who soon as he was boxed	Y
Within our garden found himself at once	J2
As if by trick insidious and unkind	Y
Stripped of his voice and left to dimple down	E
Without an effort and without a will	Q
A channel paved by man's officious care	B
I looked at him and smiled and smiled again	E
And in the press of twenty thousand thoughts	K2
'Ha ' quoth I 'pretty prisoner are you there '	L2
Well might sarcastic Fancy then have whispered	Y
'An emblem here behold of thy own life	C2
In its late course of even days with all	M2
Their smooth enthralment ' but the heart was full	N2
Too full for that reproach My aged Dame	Z
Walked proudly at my side she guided me	V
I willing nay nay wishing to be led	Y
The face of every neighbour whom I met	Y
Was like a volume to me some were hailed	Y
Upon the road some busy at their work	O2
Unceremonious greetings interchanged	Y
With half the length of a long field between	E
Among my schoolfellows I scattered round	Y
Like recognitions but with some constraint	Y
Attended doubtless with a little pride	Y
But with more shame for my habiliments	K2
The transformation wrought by gay attire	B
Not less delighted did I take my place	K2
At our domestic table and dear Friend	Y
In this endeavour simply to relate	Y
A Poet's history may I leave untold	Y
The thankfulness with which I laid me down	E
In my accustomed bed more welcome now	E
Perhaps than if it had been more desired	Y
Or been more often thought of with regret	Y
That lowly bed whence I had heard the wind	Y
Roar and the rain beat hard where I so oft	Y
Had lain awake on summer nights to watch	P2
The moon in splendour couched among the leaves	K2
Of a tall ash that near our cottage stood	Y
Had watched her with fixed eyes while to and fro	B
In the dark summit of the waving tree	V
She rocked with every impulse of the breeze	K2
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Among the favourites whom it pleased me well	Q2
To see again was one by ancient right	Y
Our inmate a rough terrier of the hills	K2
By birth and call of nature pre ordained	Y
To hunt the badger and unearth the fox	K2
Among the impervious crags but having been	E
From youth our own adopted he had passed	Y
Into a gentler service And when first	Y
The boyish spirit flagged and day by day	Y
Along my veins I kindled with the stir	B
The fermentation and the vernal heat	Y
Of poesy affecting private shades	K2
Like a sick Lover then this dog was used	Y
To watch me an attendant and a friend	Y
Obsequious to my steps early and late	Y
Though often of such dilatory walk	R2
Tired and uneasy at the halts I made	Y
A hundred times when roving high and low	B
I have been harassed with the toil of verse	K2
Much pains and little progress and at once	K2
Some lovely Image in the song rose up	S2
Full formed like Venus rising from the sea	V
Then have I darted forwards to let loose	K2
My hand upon his back with stormy joy	T2
Caressing him again and yet again	E
And when at evening on the public way	Y
I sauntered like a river murmuring	U2
And talking to itself when all things else	K2
Are still the creature trotted on before	B
Such was his custom but whene'er he met	Y
A passenger approaching he would turn	E
To give me timely notice and straightway	Y
Grateful for that admonishment I hushed	Y
My voice composed my gait and with the air	B
And mien of one whose thoughts are free advanced	Y
To give and take a greeting that might save	V2
My name from piteous rumours such as wait	Y
On men suspected to be crazed in brain	E
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Those walks well worthy to be prized and loved	Y
Regretted that word too was on my tongue	W2
But they were richly laden with all good	Y
And cannot be remembered but with thanks	K2
And gratitude and perfect joy of heart	Y
Those walks in all their freshness now came back	X2
Like a returning Spring When first I made	Y
Once more the circuit of our little lake	Y2
If ever happiness hath lodged with man	E
That day consummate happiness was mine	E
Wide spreading steady calm contemplative	Z2
The sun was set or setting when I left	Y
Our cottage door and evening soon brought on	E
A sober hour not winning or serene	E
For cold and raw the air was and untuned	Y
But as a face we love is sweetest then	E
When sorrow damps it or whatever look	A3
It chance to wear is sweetest if the heart	Y
Have fulness in herself even so with me	V
It fared that evening Gently did my soul	B3
Put off her veil and self transmuted stood	Y
Naked as in the presence of her God	Y
While on I walked a comfort seemed to touch	C3
A heart that had not been disconsolate	Y
Strength came where weakness was not known to be	V
At least not felt and restoration came	Z
Like an intruder knocking at the door	B
Of unacknowledged weariness I took	A3
The balance and with firm hand weighed myself	D3
Of that external scene which round me lay	Y
Little in this abstraction did I see	V
Remembered less but I had inward hopes	K2
And swellings of the spirit was rapt and soothed	Y
Conversed with promises had glimmering views	K2
How life pervades the undecaying mind	Y
How the immortal soul with God like power	B
Informs creates and thaws the deepest sleep	E3
That time can lay upon her how on earth	I2
Man if he do but live within the light	Y
Of high endeavours daily spreads abroad	Y
His being armed with strength that cannot fail	F3
Nor was there want of milder thoughts of love	D2
Of innocence and holiday repose	K2
And more than pastoral quiet 'mid the stir	B
Of boldest projects and a peaceful end	Y
At last or glorious by endurance won	E
Thus musing in a wood I sate me down	E
Alone continuing there to muse the slopes	K2
And heights meanwhile were slowly overspread	Y
With darkness and before a rippling breeze	K2
The long lake lengthened out its hoary line	E
And in the sheltered coppice where I sate	Y
Around me from among the hazel leaves	K2
Now here now there moved by the straggling wind	Y
Came ever and anon a breath like sound	Y

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