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THUS far O Friend have we though leaving much	A
Unvisited endeavoured to retrace	B
The simple ways in which my childhood walked	C
Those chiefly that first led me to the love	D
Of rivers woods and fields The passion yet	E
Was in its birth sustained as might befall	F
By nourishment that came unsought for still	G
From week to week from month to month we lived	H
A round of tumult Duly were our games	I
Prolonged in summer till the daylight failed	J
No chair remained before the doors the bench	K
And threshold steps were empty fast asleep	L
The labourer and the old man who had sate	M
A later lingerer yet the revelry	N
Continued and the loud uproar at last	O
When all the ground was dark and twinkling stars	P
Edged the black clouds home and to bed we went	Q
Feverish with weary joints and beating minds	R
Ah is there one who ever has been young	S
Nor needs a warning voice to tame the pride	T
Of intellect and virtue's self esteem	U
One is there though the wisest and the best	V
Of all mankind who covets not at times	W
Union that cannot be who would not give	X
If so he might to duty and to truth	Y
The eagerness of infantine desire	Z
A tranquillising spirit presses now	A2
On my corporeal frame so wide appears	B2
The vacancy between me and those days	C2
Which yet have such self presence in my mind	D2
That musing on them often do I seem	U
Two consciousnesses conscious of myself	E2
And of some other Being A rude mass	F2
Of native rock left midway in the square	G2
Of our small market village was the goal	H2
Or centre of these sports and when returned	I2
After long absence thither I repaired	J2
Gone was the old grey stone and in its place	B
A smart Assembly room usurped the ground	K2
That had been ours There let the fiddle scream	U
And be ye happy Yet my Friends I know	L2
That more than one of you will think with me	N
Of those soft starry nights and that old Dame	M2
From whom the stone was named who there had sate	M
And watched her table with its huckster's wares	N2
Assiduous through the length of sixty years	B2
	-
We ran a boisterous course the year span round	K2
With giddy motion But the time approached	O2
That brought with it a regular desire	Z
For calmer pleasures when the winning forms	P2
Of Nature were collaterally attached	Q2
To every scheme of holiday delight	R2
And every boyish sport less grateful else	S2
And languidly pursued	T2
When summer came	M2
Our pastime was on bright half holidays	C2
To sweep along the plain of Windermere	Z
With rival oars and the selected bourne	U2
Was now an Island musical with birds	V2
That sang and ceased not now a Sister Isle	W2
Beneath the oaks' umbrageous covert sown	X2
With lilies of the valley like a field	Y2
And now a third small Island where survived	H
In solitude the ruins of a shrine	Z2
Once to Our Lady dedicate and served	A3
Daily with chaunted rites In such a race	B
So ended disappointment could be none	B3
Uneasiness or pain or jealousy	N
We rested in the shade all pleased alike	C3
Conquered and conqueror Thus the pride of strength	D3
And the vain glory of superior skill	G
Were tempered thus was gradually produced	E3
A quiet independence of the heart	F3
And to my Friend who knows me I may add	G3
Fearless of blame that hence for future days	C2
Ensued a diffidence and modesty	N
And I was taught to feel perhaps too much	A
The self sufficing power of Solitude	T2
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Our daily meals were frugal Sabine fare	Z
More than we wished we knew the blessing then	H3
Of vigorous hunger hence corporeal strength	D3
Unsapped by delicate viands for exclude	T2
A little weekly stipend and we lived	H
Through three divisions of the quartered year	Z
In penniless poverty But now to school	I3
From the half yearly holidays returned	I2
We came with weightier purses that sufficed	J3
To furnish treats more costly than the Dame	M2
Of the old grey stone from her scant board supplied	T
Hence rustic dinners on the cool green ground	K2
Or in the woods or by a river side	T
Or shady fountains while among the leaves	K3
Soft airs were stirring and the mid day sun	B3
Unfelt shone brightly round us in our joy	L3
Nor is my aim neglected if I tell	M3
How sometimes in the length of those half years	B2
We from our funds drew largely proud to curb	N3
And eager to spur on the galloping steed	O3
And with the courteous inn keeper whose stud	P3
Supplied our want we haply might employ	L3
Sly subterfuge if the adventure's bound	K2
Were distant some famed temple where of yore	Z
The Druids worshipped or the antique walls	Q3
Of that large abbey where within the Vale	R3
Of Nightshade to St Mary's honour built	S3
Stands yet a mouldering pile with fractured arch	T3
Belfry and images and living trees	U3
A holy scene Along the smooth green turf	V3
Our horses grazed To more than inland peace	W3
Left by the west wind sweeping overhead	X3
From a tumultuous ocean trees and towers	Y3
In that sequestered valley may be seen	Z3
Both silent and both motionless alike	C3
Such the deep shelter that is there and such	A
The safeguard for repose and quietness	A4
	-
Our steeds remounted and the summons given	B3
With whip and spur we through the chauntry flew	B4
In uncouth race and left the cross legged knight	R2
And the stone abbot and that single wren	H3
Which one day sang so sweetly in the nave	C4
Of the old church that though from recent showers	Y3
The earth was comfortless and touched by faint	D4
Internal breezes sobbings of the place	B
And respirations from the roofless walls	Q3
The shuddering ivy dripped large drops yet still	G
So sweetly 'mid the gloom the invisible bird	E4
Sang to herself that there I could have made	F4
My dwelling place and lived for ever there	Z
To hear such music Through the walls we flew	B4
And down the valley and a circuit made	F4
In wantonness of heart through rough and smooth	G4
We scampered homewards Oh ye rocks and streams	H4
And that still spirit shed from evening air	Z
Even in this joyous time I sometimes felt	I4
Your presence when with slackened step we breathed	J4
Along the sides of the steep hills or when	H3
Lighted by gleams of moonlight from the sea	N
We beat with thundering hoofs the level sand	K4
	-
Midway on long Winander's eastern shore	Z
Within the crescent of pleasant bay	L4
A tavern stood no homely featured house	M4
Primeval like its neighbouring cottages	N4
But 'twas a splendid place the door beset	E
With chaises grooms and liveries and within	O4
Decanters glasses and the blood red wine	Z2
In ancient times and ere the Hall was built	S3
On the large island had this dwelling been	O4
More worthy of a poet's love a hut	P4
Proud of its own bright fire and sycamore shade	F4
But though the rhymes were gone that once inscribed	Q4
The threshold and large golden characters	Y3
Spread o'er the spangled sign board had dislodged	R4
The old Lion and usurped his place in slight	R2
And mockery of the rustic painter's hand	K4
Yet to this hour the spot to me is dear	Z
With all its foolish pomp The garden lay	L4
Upon a slope surmounted by a plain	S4
Of a small bowling green beneath us stood	T4
A grove with gleams of water through the trees	U3
And over the tree tops nor did we want	U4
Refreshment strawberries and mellow cream	U
There while through half an afternoon we played	F4
On the smooth platform whether skill prevailed	J
Or happy blunder triumphed bursts of glee	N
Made all the mountains ring But ere night fall	F
When in our pinnace we returned at leisure	Z
Over the shadowy lake and to the beach	V4
Of some small island steered our course with one	B3
The Minstrel of the Troop and left him there	Z
And rowed off gently while he blew his flute	W4
Alone upon the rock oh then the calm	X4
And dead still water lay upon my mind	D2
Even with a weight of pleasure and the sky	Y4
Never before so beautiful sank down	Z4
Into my heart and held me like a dream	U
Thus were my sympathies enlarged and thus	A4
Daily the common range of visible things
Grew dear to me already I began
To love the sun a boy I loved the sun	B3
Not as I since have loved him as a pledge
And surety of our earthly life a light	R2
Which we behold and feel we are alive
No	L2

William Wordsworth

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