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SIX changeful years have vanished since I first	A
Poured out saluted by that quickening breeze	B
Which met me issuing from the City's walls	C
A glad preamble to this Verse I sang	D
Aloud with fervour irresistible	E
Of short lived transport like a torrent bursting	F
From a black thunder cloud down Scafell's side	G
To rush and disappear But soon broke forth	H
So willed the Muse a less impetuous stream	I
That flowed awhile with unabating strength	J
Then stopped for years not audible again	K
Before last primrose time Beloved Friend	L
The assurance which then cheered some heavy thoughts	M
On thy departure to a foreign land	N
Has failed too slowly moves the promised work	O
Through the whole summer have I been at rest	P
Partly from voluntary holiday	Q
And part through outward hindrance But I heard	R
After the hour of sunset yester even	S
Sitting within doors between light and dark	T
A choir of redbreasts gathered somewhere near	U
My threshold minstrels from the distant woods	V
Sent in on Winter's service to announce	W
With preparation artful and benign	X
That the rough lord had left the surly North	H
On his accustomed journey The delight	Y
Due to this timely notice unawares	Z
Smote me and listening I in whispers said	A2
'Ye heartsome Choristers ye and I will be	B2
Associates and unscared by blustering winds	C2
Will chant together ' Thereafter as the shades	D2
Of twilight deepened going forth I spied	G
A glow worm underneath a dusky plume	E2
Or canopy of yet unwithered fern	F2
Clear shining like a hermit's taper seen	G2
Through a thick forest Silence touched me here	H2
No less than sound had done before the child	I2
Of Summer lingering shining by herself	J2
The voiceless worm on the unfrequented hills	K2
Seemed sent on the same errand with the choir	L2
Of Winter that had warbled at my door	M2
And the whole year breathed tenderness and love	N2
	-
The last night's genial feeling overflowed	O2
Upon this morning and my favourite grove	P2
Tossing in sunshine its dark boughs aloft	Q2
As if to make the strong wind visible	E
Wakes in me agitations like its own	R2
A spirit friendly to the Poet's task	S2
Which we will now resume with lively hope	T2
Nor checked by aught of tamer argument	U2
That lies before us needful to be told	V2
	-
Returned from that excursion soon I bade	W2
Farewell for ever to the sheltered seats	X2
Of gowned students quitted hall and bower	L2
And every comfort of that privileged ground	Y2
Well pleased to pitch a vagrant tent among	Z2
The unfenced regions of society	B2
	-
Yet undetermined to what course of life	A3
I should adhere and seeming to possess	B3
A little space of intermediate time	C3
At full command to London first I turned	D3
In no disturbance of excessive hope	T2
By personal ambition unenslaved	D3
Frugal as there was need and though self willed	D3
From dangerous passions free Three years had flown	R2
Since I had felt in heart and soul the shock	E3
Of the huge town's first presence and had paced	D3
Her endless streets a transient visitant	D3
Now fixed amid that concourse of mankind	D3
Where Pleasure whirls about incessantly	B2
And life and labour seem but one I filled	D3
An idler's place an idler well content	D3
To have a house what matter for a home	F3
That owned him living cheerfully abroad	D3
With unchecked fancy ever on the stir	L2
And all my young affections out of doors	G3
	-
There was a time when whatsoe'er is feigned	D3
Of airy palaces and gardens built	D3
By Genii of romance or hath in grave	H3
Authentic history been set forth of Rome	F3
Alcairo Babylon or Persepolis	I3
Or given upon report by pilgrim friars	J3
Of golden cities ten months' journey deep	K3
Among Tartarian wilds fell short far short	D3
Of what my fond simplicity believed	D3
And thought of London held me by a chain	L3
Less strong of wonder and obscure delight	D3
Whether the bolt of childhood's Fancy shot	D3
For me beyond its ordinary mark	T
'Twere vain to ask but in our flock of boys	M3
Was One a cripple from his birth whom chance	N3
Summoned from school to London fortunate	D3
And envied traveller When the Boy returned	D3
After short absence curiously I scanned	D3
His mien and person nor was free in sooth	H
From disappointment not to find some change	O3
In look and air from that new region brought	D3
As if from Fairy land Much I questioned him	P3
And every word he uttered on my ears	Q3
Fell flatter than a caged parrot's note	D3
That answers unexpectedly awry	R3
And mocks the prompter's listening Marvellous things	S3
Had vanity quick Spirit that appears	Q3
Almost as deeply seated and as strong	T3
In a Child's heart as fear itself conceived	D3
For my enjoyment Would that I could now	U3
Recall what then I pictured to myself	J2
Of mitred Prelates Lords in ermine clad	D3
The King and the King's Palace and not last	D3
Nor least Heaven bless him the renowned Lord Mayor	L2
Dreams not unlike to those which once begat	D3
A change of purpose in young Whittington	V3
When he a friendless and a drooping boy	W3
Sate on a stone and heard the bells speak out	D3
Articulate music Above all one thought	D3
Baffled my understanding how men lived	D3
Even next door neighbours as we say yet still	X3
Strangers not knowing each the other's name	Y3
	-
Oh wondrous power of words by simple faith	H
Licensed to take the meaning that we love	N2
Vauxhall and Ranelagh I then had heard	D3
Of your green groves and wilderness of lamps	Z3
Dimming the stars and fireworks magical	E
And gorgeous ladies under splendid domes	A4
Floating in dance or warbling high in air	B4
The songs of spirits Nor had Fancy fed	D3
With less delight upon that other class	C4
Of marvels broad day wonders permanent	D3
The River proudly bridged the dizzy top	D4
And Whispering Gallery of St Paul's the tombs	E4
Of Westminster the Giants of Guildhall	F4
Bedlam and those carved maniacs at the gates	G4
Perpetually recumbent Statues man	H4
And the horse under him in gilded pomp	I4
Adorning flowery gardens 'mid vast squares	Z
The Monument and that Chamber of the Tower	L2
Where England's sovereigns sit in long array	Q
Their steeds bestriding every mimic shape	J4
Cased in the gleaming mail the monarch wore	M2
Whether for gorgeous tournament addressed	D3
Or life or death upon the battle field	D3
Those bold imaginations in due time	C3
Had vanished leaving others in their stead	D3
And now I looked upon the living scene	G2
Familiarly perused it oftentimes	K4
In spite of strongest disappointment pleased	D3
Through courteous self submission as a tax	L4
Paid to the object by prescriptive right	D3
	-
Rise up thou monstrous ant hill on the plain	L3
Of a too busy world Before me flow	M4
Thou endless stream of men and moving things	S3
Thy every day appearance as it strikes	N4
With wonder heightened or sublimed by awe	O4
On strangers of all ages the quick dance	N3
Of colours lights and forms the deafening din	S
The comers and the goers face to face	P4
Face after face the string of dazzling wares	Z
Shop after shop with symbols blazoned names	Q4
And all the tradesman's honours overhead	D3
Here fronts of houses like a title page	R4
With letters huge inscribed from top to toe	M4
Stationed above the door like guardian saints	S4
There allegoric shapes female or male	T4
Or physiognomies of real men	K
Land warriors kings or admirals of the sea	B2
Boyle Shakspeare Newton or the attractive head	D3
Of some quack doctor famous in his day	Q
	-
Meanwhile the roar continues till at length	H
Escaped as from an enemy we turn	F2
Abruptly into some sequestered nook	U4
Still as a sheltered place when winds blow loud	D3
At leisure thence through tracts of thin resort	D3
And sights and sounds that come at intervals	V4
We take our way A raree show is here	H2
With children gathered round another street	D3
Presents a company of dancing dogs	W4
Or dromedary with an antic pair	B4
Of monkeys on his back a minstrel band	D3
Of Savoyards or single and alone	R2
An English ballad singer Private courts	X4
Gloomy as coffins and unsightly lanes	Y4
Thrilled by some female vendor's scream belike	U4
The very shrillest of all London cries	Z4
May then	K

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