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EVEN as a river partly it might seem	A
Yielding to old remembrances and swayed	B
In part by fear to shape a way direct	C
That would engulph him soon in the ravenous sea	D
Turns and will measure back his course far back	E
Seeking the very regions which he crossed	F
In his first outset so have we my Friend	G
Turned and returned with intricate delay	H
Or as a traveller who has gained the brow	I
Of some aerial Down while there he halts	J
For breathing time is tempted to review	K
The region left behind him and if aught	G
Deserving notice have escaped regard	G
Or been regarded with too careless eye	L
Strives from that height with one and yet one more	M
Last look to make the best amends he may	H
So have we lingered Now we start afresh	N
With courage and new hope risen on our toil	O
Fair greetings to this shapeless eagerness	P
Whene'er it comes needful in work so long	Q
Thrice needful to the argument which now	I
Awaits us Oh how much unlike the past	G
	-
Free as a colt at pasture on the hill	R
I ranged at large through London's wide domain	S
Month after month Obscurely did I live	T
Not seeking frequent intercourse with men	U
By literature or elegance or rank	V
Distinguished Scarcely was a year thus spent	G
Ere I forsook the crowded solitude	G
With less regret for its luxurious pomp	W
And all the nicely guarded shows of art	G
Than for the humble book stalls in the streets	X
Exposed to eye and hand where'er I turned	G
	-
France lured me forth the realm that I had crossed	G
So lately journeying toward the snow clad Alps	Y
But now relinquishing the scrip and staff	Z
And all enjoyment which the summer sun	A2
Sheds round the steps of those who meet the day	H
With motion constant as his own I went	G
Prepared to sojourn in a pleasant town	B2
Washed by the current of the stately Loire	C2
	-
Through Paris lay my readiest course and there	D2
Sojourning a few days I visited	G
In haste each spot of old or recent fame	E2
The latter chiefly from the field of Mars	F2
Down to the suburbs of St Antony	D
And from Mont Martre southward to the Dome	G2
Of Genevieve In both her clamorous Halls	H2
The National Synod and the Jacobins	H2
I saw the Revolutionary Power	I2
Toss like a ship at anchor rocked by storms	H2
The Arcades I traversed in the Palace huge	J2
Of Orleans coasted round and round the line	K2
Of Tavern Brothel Gaming house and Shop	L2
Great rendezvous of worst and best the walk	M2
Of all who had a purpose or had not	G
I stared and listened with a stranger's ears	H2
To Hawkers and Haranguers hubbub wild	G
And hissing Factionists with ardent eyes	H2
In knots or pairs or single Not a look	N2
Hope takes or Doubt or Fear is forced to wear	D2
But seemed there present and I scanned them all	O2
Watched every gesture uncontrollable	P2
Of anger and vexation and despite	G
All side by side and struggling face to face	H2
With gaiety and dissolute idleness	H2
	-
Where silent zephyrs sported with the dust	G
Of the Bastille I sate in the open sun	A2
And from the rubbish gathered up a stone	Q2
And pocketed the relic in the guise	H2
Of an enthusiast yet in honest truth	R2
I looked for something that I could not find	G
Affecting more emotion than I felt	G
For 'tis most certain that these various sights	H2
However potent their first shock with me	D
Appeared to recompense the traveller's pains	H2
Less than the painted Magdalene of Le Brun	A2
A beauty exquisitely wrought with hair	D2
Dishevelled gleaming eyes and rueful cheek	S2
Pale and bedropped with overflowing tears	H2
	-
But hence to my more permanent abode	G
I hasten there by novelties in speech	T2
Domestic manners customs gestures looks	H2
And all the attire of ordinary life	U2
Attention was engrossed and thus amused	G
I stood 'mid those concussions unconcerned	G
Tranquil almost and careless as a flower	I2
Glassed in a green house or a parlour shrub	V2
That spreads its leaves in unmolested peace	H2
While every bush and tree the country through	K
Is shaking to the roots indifference this	H2
Which may seem strange but I was unprepared	G
With needful knowledge had abruptly passed	G
Into a theatre whose stage was filled	G
And busy with an action far advanced	G
Like others I had skimmed and sometimes read	G
With care the master pamphlets of the day	H
Nor wanted such half insight as grew wild	G
Upon that meagre soil helped out by talk	M2
And public news but having never seen	W2
A chronicle that might suffice to show	X2
Whence the main organs of the public power	I2
Had sprung their transmigrations when and how	I
Accomplished giving thus unto events	H2
A form and body all things were to me	D
Loose and disjointed and the affections left	G
Without a vital interest At that time	Y2
Moreover the first storm was overblown	Q2
And the strong hand of outward violence	H2
Locked up in quiet For myself I fear	Z2
Now in connection with so great a theme	A
To speak as I must be compelled to do	K
Of one so unimportant night by night	G
Did I frequent the formal haunts of men	U
Whom in the city privilege of birth	A3
Sequestered from the rest societies	H2
Polished in arts and in punctilio versed	G
Whence and from deeper causes all discourse	H2
Of good and evil of the time was shunned	G
With scrupulous care but these restrictions soon	B3
Proved tedious and I gradually withdrew	K
Into a noisier world and thus ere long	Q
Became a patriot and my heart was all	O2
Given to the people and my love was theirs	H2
	-
A band of military Officers	H2
Then stationed in the city were the chief	C3
Of my associates some of these wore swords	H2
That had been seasoned in the wars and all	O2
Were men well born the chivalry of France	H2
In age and temper differing they had yet	G
One spirit ruling in each heart alike	D3
Save only one hereafter to be named	G
Were bent upon undoing what was done	A2
This was their rest and only hope therewith	A3
No fear had they of bad becoming worse	H2
For worst to them was come nor would have stirred	G
Or deemed it worth a moment's thought to stir	I2
In anything save only as the act	G
Looked thitherward One reckoning by years	H2
Was in the prime of manhood and erewhile	O2
He had sate lord in many tender hearts	H2
Though heedless of such honours now and changed	G
His temper was quite mastered by the times	H2
And they had blighted him had eaten away	H
The beauty of his person doing wrong	Q
Alike to body and to mind his port	G
Which once had been erect and open now	I
Was stooping and contracted and a face	H2
Endowed by Nature with her fairest gifts	H2
Of symmetry and light and bloom expressed	G
As much as any that was ever seen	W2
A ravage out of season made by thoughts	H2
Unhealthy and vexatious With the hour	I2
That from the press of Paris duly brought	G
Its freight of public news the fever came	E2
A punctual visitant to shake this man	E3
Disarmed his voice and fanned his yellow cheek	S2
Into a thousand colours while he read	G
Or mused his sword was haunted by his touch	F3
Continually like an uneasy place	H2
In his own body 'Twas in truth an hour	I2
Of universal ferment mildest men	U
Were agitated and commotions strife	U2
Of passion and opinion filled the walls	H2
Of peaceful houses with unquiet sounds	H2
The soil of common life was at that time	Y2
Too hot to tread upon Oft said I then	U
And not then only 'What a mockery this	H2
Of history the past and that to come	G3
Now do I feel how all men are deceived	G
Reading of nations and their works in faith	A3
Faith given to vanity and emptiness	H2
Oh laughter for the page that would reflect	G
To future times the face of what now is '	-
The land all swarmed with passion like a plain	S
Devoured by locusts Carra Gorsas add	G
A hundred other names forgotten now	I
Nor to be heard of more yet they were powers	H2
Like earthquakes shocks repeated day by day	H
And felt through every nook of town and field	G
	-
Such was the state of things Meanwhile the chief	C3
Of my associates stood prepared for flight	G
To augment the band of emigrants in arms	H2
Upon the borders of the Rhine and leagued	G
With foreign foes mustered for	M

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