Memorials Of A Tour In Italy, 1837 - I. - Musings Near Aquapendente - April 1837 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Ye Apennines with all your fertile vales	A
Deeply embosomed and your winding shores	B
Of either sea an Islander by birth	C
A Mountaineer by habit would resound	D
Your praise in meet accordance with your claims	E
Bestowed by Nature or from man's great deeds	F
Inherited presumptuous thought it fled	G
Like vapour like a towering cloud dissolved	H
Not therefore shall my mind give way to sadness	I
Yon snow white torrent fall plumb down it drops	J
Yet ever hangs or seems to hang in air	K
Lulling the leisure of that high perched town	L
Aquadendente in her lofty site	M
Its neighbour and its namesake town and flood	N
Forth flashing out of its own gloomy chasm	O
Bright sunbeams the fresh verdure of this lawn	P
Strewn with grey rocks and on the horizon's verge	Q
O'er intervenient waste through glimmering haze	R
Unquestionably kenned that cone shaped hill	S
With fractured summit no indifferent sight	M
To travelers from such comforts as are thine	T
Bleak Radicofani escaped with joy	U
These are before me and the varied scene	V
May well suffice till noon tide's sultry heat	W
Relax to fix and satisfy the mind	X
Passive yet pleased What with this Broom in flower	Y
Close at my side She bids me fly to greet	W
Her sisters soon like her to be attired	Z
With golden blossoms opening at the feet	W
Of my own Fairfield The glad greeting given	A2
Given with a voice and by a look returned	B2
Of old companionship Time counts not minutes	C2
Ere from accustomed paths familiar fields	D2
The local Genius hurries me aloft	E2
Transported over that cloud wooing hill	S
Seat Sandal a fond suitor of the clouds	F2
With dream like smoothness to Helvellyn's top	G2
There to alight upon crisp moss and range	H2
Obtaining ampler boon at every step	I2
Of visual sovereignty hills multitudinous	F2
Not Apennine can boast of fairer hills	F2
Pride of two nations wood and lake and plains	F2
And prospect right below of deep coves shaped	J2
By skeleton arms that from the mountain's trunk	K2
Extended clasp the winds with mutual moan	L2
Struggling for liberty while undismayed	J2
The shepherd struggles with them Onward thence	F2
And downward by the skirt of Greenside fell	M2
And by Glenridding screes and low Glencoign	L2
Places forsaken now though loving still	S
The muses as they loved them in the days	F2
Of the old minstrels and the border bards	F2
But here am I fast bound and let it pass	F2
The simple rapture who that travels far	N2
To feed his mind with watchful eyes could share	K
Or wish to share it One there surely was	F2
The Wizard of the North with anxious hope	O2
Brought to this genial climate when disease	F2
Preyed upon body and mind yet not the less	F2
Had his sunk eye kindled at those dear words	F2
That spake of bards and minstrels and his spirit	J2
Had flown with mine to old Helvellyn's brow	P2
Where once together in his day of strength	Q2
We stood rejoicing as if earth were free	R2
From sorrow like the sky above our heads	F2
	-
Years followed years and when upon the eve	S2
Of his last going from Tweed side thought turned	J2
Or by another's sympathy was led	J2
To this bright land Hope was for him no friend	J2
Knowledge no help Imagination shaped	J2
No promise Still in more than ear deep seats	F2
Survives for me and cannot but survive	T2
The tone of voice which wedded borrowed words	F2
To sadness not their own when with faint smile	U2
Forced by intent to take from speech its edge	V2
He said When I am there although 'tis fair	K
'Twill be another Yarrow Prophecy	R2
More than fulfilled as gay Campania's shores	F2
Soon witnessed and the city of seven hills	F2
Her sparkling fountains and her mouldering tombs	F2
And more than all that Eminence which showed	J2
Her splendours seen not felt the while he stood	J2
A few short steps painful they were apart	J2
From Tasso's Convent haven and retired grave	W2
	-
Peace to their Spirits why should Poesy	F2
Yield to the lure of vain regret and hover	Y
In gloom on wings with confidence outspread	J2
To move in sunshine Utter thanks my Soul	X2
Tempered with awe and sweetened by compassion	L2
For them who in the shades of sorrow dwell	M2
That I so near the term to human life	Y2
Appointed by man's common heritage	Z2
Frail as the frailest one withal if that	J2
Deserve a thought but little known to fame	A3
Am free to rove where Nature's loveliest looks	F2
Art's noblest relics history's rich bequests	F2
Failed to reanimate and but feebly cheered	J2
The whole world's Darling free to rove at will	S
O'er high and low and if requiring rest	J2
Rest from enjoyment only	R2
	-
Thanks poured forth	B3
For what thus far hath blessed my wanderings thanks	F2
Fervent but humble as the lips can breathe	C3
Where gladness seems a duty let me guard	J2
Those seeds of expectation which the fruit	J2
Already gathered in this favoured Land	J2
Enfolds within its core The faith be mine	L2
That He who guides and governs all approves	F2
When gratitude though disciplined to look	D3
Beyond these transient spheres doth wear a crown	L2
Of earthly hope put on with trembling hand	J2
Nor is least pleased we trust when golden beams	F2
Reflected through the mists of age from hours	F2
Of innocent delight remote or recent	J2
Shoot but a little way 'tis all they can	L2
Into the doubtful future Who would keep	E3
Power must resolve to cleave to it through life	Y2
Else it deserts him surely as he lives	F2
Saints would not grieve nor guardian angels frown	L2
If one while tossed as was my lot to be	R2
In a frail bark urged by two slender oars	F2
Over waves rough and deep that when they broke	F3
Dashed their white foam against the palace walls	F2
Of Genoa the superb should there be led	J2
To meditate upon his own appointed tasks	F2
However humble in themselves with thoughts	F2
Raised and sustained by memory of Him	G3
Who oftentimes within those narrow bounds	F2
Rocked on the surge there tried his spirit's strength	Q2
And grasp of purpose long ere sailed his ship	H3
To lay a new world open	L2
	-
Nor less prized	J2
Be those impressions which incline the heart	J2
To mild to lowly and to seeming weak	I3
Bend that way her desires The dew the storm	J3
The dew whose moisture fell in gentle drops	F2
On the small hyssop destined to become	O
By Hebrew ordinance devoutly kept	J2
A purifying instrument the storm	J3
That shook on Lebanon the cedar's top	G2
And as it shook enabling the blind roots	F2
Further to force their way endowed its trunk	K2
With magnitude and strength fit to uphold	J2
The glorious temple did alike proceed	J2
From the same gracious will were both an offspring	K3
Of bounty infinite	J2
	-
Between Powers that aim	A3
Higher to lift their lofty heads impelled	J2
By no profane ambition Powers that thrive	T2
By conflict and their opposites that trust	J2
In lowliness a midway tract there lies	F2
Of thoughtful sentiment for every mind	J2
Pregnant with good Young Middle aged and Old	J2
From century on to century must have known	L2
The emotion nay more fitly were it said	J2
The blest tranquility that sunk so deep	E3
Into my spirit when I paced enclosed	J2
In Pisa's Campo Santo the smooth floor	L3
Of its Arcades paved with sepulchral slabs	F2
And through each window's open fretwork looked	J2
O'er the blank Area of sacred earth	C
Fetched from Mount Calvary or haply delved	J2
In precincts nearer to the Saviour's tomb	M3
By hands of men humble as brave who fought	J2
For its deliverance a capacious field	J2
That to descendants of the dead it holds	F2
And to all living mute memento breathes	F2
More touching far than ought which on the walls	F2
Is pictured or their epitaphs can speak	I3
Of the changed City's long departed power	Y
Glory and wealth which perilous as they are	N2
Here did not kill but nourished Piety	R2
And high above that length of cloistral roof	N3
Peering in air and backed by azure sky	O3
To kindred contemplations ministers	F2
The Baptistery's dome and that which swells	F2
From the Cathedral pile and with the twain	L2
Conjoined in prospect mutable or fixed	J2
As hurry on in eagerness the feet	J2
Or pause the summit of the Leaning tower	Y
Nor less remuneration waits on him	G3
Who having left the Cemetery stands	F2
In the Tower's shadow of decline and fall	P3
Admonished not without some sense of fear	Q3
Fear that soon vanishes before the sight	J2
Of splendour unextinguished pomp unscathed	J2
And beauty unimpaired Grand in itself	R3
And for itself the assemblage grand and fair	K
To view and for the mind's consenting eye	O3
A type of age in man upon its front	J2
Bearing the world acknowledged evidence	F2
Of past exploits nor fondly after more	L3
Struggling against the stream of destiny	R2
But with its peaceful majesty content	J2
Oh what a spectacle at every turn	L2
The Place unfolds from pavement skinned with moss	F2
Or grass grown spaces where the heaviest foot	J2
Provokes no echoes but must softly tread	J2
Where Solitude with Silence paired stops short	J2
Of Desolation and to Ruin's scythe	S3
Decay submits not	J2
	-
But where'er my steps	F2
Shall wander chiefly let me cull with care	K
Those images of genial beauty oft	J2
Too lovely to be pensive in themselves	F2
But by reflection made so which do best	J2
And fitliest serve to crown with fragrant wreaths	F2
Life's cup when almost filled with years like mine	L2
How lovely robed in forenoon light and shade	J2
Each ministering to each didst thou appear	Q3
Savona Queen of territory fair	K
As aught that marvelous coast thro' all its length	Q2
Yields to the Stranger's eye Remembrance holds	F2
As a selected treasure thy one cliff	T3
That while it wore for melancholy crest	J2
A shattered Convent yet rose proud to have	U3
Clinging to its steep sides a thousand herbs	F2
And shrubs whose pleasant looks gave proof how kind	J2
The breath of air can be where earth had else	F2
Seemed churlish And behold both far and near	Q3
Garden and field all decked with orange bloom	M3
And peach and citron in Spring's mildest breeze	F2
Expanding and along the smooth shore curved	J2
Into a natural port a tideless sea	R2
To that mild breeze with motion and with voice	F2
Softly responsive and attuned to all	P3
Those vernal charms of sight and sound appeared	J2
Smooth space of turf which from the guardian fort	J2
Sloped seaward turf whose tender April green	L2
In coolest climes too fugitive might even here	V3
Plead with the sovereign Sun for longer stay	J2
Than his unmitigated beams allow	P2
Nor plead in vain if beauty could preserve	W3
From mortal change aught that is born on earth	C
Or doth on time depend	J2
	-
While on the brink	X3
Of that high Convent crested cliff I stood	J2
Modest Savona over all did brood	J2
A pure poetic Spirit as the breeze	F2
Mild as the verdure fresh the sunshine bright	J2
Thy gentle Chiabrera not a stone	L2
Mural or level with the trodden floor	L3
In Church or Chapel if my curious quest	J2
Missed not the truth retains a single name	A3
Of young or old warrior or saint or sage	Y3
To whose dear memories his sepulchral verse	F2
Paid simple tribute such as might have flowed	J2
From the clear spring of a plain English heart	J2
Say rather one in native fellowship	H3
With all who want not skill to couple grief	Z3
With praise as genuine admiration prompts	F2
The grief the praise are severed from their dust	J2
Yet in his page the records of that worth	C
Survive uninjured glory then to words	F2
Honour to word preserving Arts and hail	A4
Ye kindred local influences that still	S
If Hope's familiar whispers merit faith	B4
Await my steps when they the breezy height	J2
Shall range of philosophic Tusculum	A3
Or Sabine vales explored inspire a wish	C4
To meet the shade of Horace by the side	J2
Of his Bandusian fount or I invoke	F3
His presence to point out the spot where once	F2
He sate and eulogized with earnest pen	L2
Peace leisure freedom moderate desires	F2
And all the immunities of rural life	Y2
Extolled behind Vacuna's crumbling fane	L2
Or let me loiter soothed with what is given	L2
Nor asking more on that delicious Bay	J2
Parthenope's Domain Virgilian haunt	J2
Illustrated with never dying verse	F2
And by the Poet's laurel shaded tomb	A3
Age after age to Pilgrims from all lands	F2
Endeared	J2
	-
And who if not a man as cold	J2
In heart as dull in brain while pacing ground	J2
Chosen by Rome's legendary Bards high minds	F2
Out of her early struggles well inspired	J2
To localize heroic acts could look	D3
Upon the spots with undelighted eye	O3
Though even to their last syllable the Lays	F2
And very names of those who gave them birth	C
Have perished Verily to her utmost depth	D4
Imagination feels what Reason fears not	J2
To recognize the lasting virtue lodged	J2
In those bold fictions that by deeds assigned	J2
To the Valerian Fabian Curian Race	F2
And others like in fame created Powers	F2
With attributes from History derived	J2
By Poesy irradiate and yet graced	J2
Through marvelous felicity of skill	S
With something more propitious to high aims	F2
Than either pent within her separate sphere	Q3
Can oft with justice claim	A3
	-
And not disdaining	K3
Union with those primeval energies	F2
To virtue consecrate stoop ye from your height	J2
Christian Traditions at my Spirit's call	P3
Descend and on the brow of ancient Rome	A3
As she survives in ruin manifest	J2
Your glories mingled with the brightest hues	F2
Of her memorial halo fading fading	K3
But never to be extinct while Earth endures	F2
O come if undishonoured by the prayer	K
From all her Sanctuaries Open for my feet	J2
Ye Catacombs give to mine eyes a glimpse	F2
Of the Devout as 'mid your glooms convened	J2
For safety they of yore enclasped the Cross	F2
On knees that ceased from trembling or intoned	J2
Their orisons with voices half suppressed	J2
But sometimes heard or fancied to be heard	J2
Even at this hour	Y
	-
And thou Mamertine prison	L2
Into that vault receive me from whose depth	D4
Issues revealed in no presumptuous vision	L2
Albeit lifting human to divine	L2
A Saint the Church's Rock the mystic Keys	F2
Grasped in his hand and lo with upright sword	J2
Prefiguring his own impendent doom	A3
The Apostle of the Gentiles both prepared	J2
To suffer pains with heathen scorn and hate	J2
Inflicted blessed Men for so to Heaven	L2
They follow their dear Lord	J2
	-
Time flows nor winds	F2
Nor stagnates nor precipitates his course	F2
But many a benefit borne upon his breast	J2
For human kind sinks out of sight is gone	L2
No one knows how nor seldom is put forth	B3
An angry arm that snatches good away	J2
Never perhaps to reappear The Stream	A3
Has to our generation brought and brings	F2
Innumerable gains yet we who now	P2
Walk in the light of day pertain full surely	R2
To a chilled age most pitiably shut out	J2
From that which 'is' and actuates by forms	F2
Abstractions and by lifeless fact to fact	J2
Minutely linked with diligence uninspired	J2
Unrectified unguided unsustained	J2
By godlike insight To this fate is doomed	J2
Science wide spread and spreading still as be	R2
Her conquests in the world of sense made known	L2
So with the internal mind it fares and so	F2
With morals trusting in contempt or fear	Q3
Of vital principle's controlling law	E4
To her purblind guide Expediency and so	F2
Suffers religious faith Elate with view	F4
Of what is won we overlook or scorn	L2
The best that should keep pace with it and must	J2
Else more and more the general mind will droop	G4
Even as if bent on perishing There lives	F2
No faculty within us which the Soul	X2
Can spare and humblest earthly Weal demands	F2
For dignity not placed beyond her reach	H4
Zealous co operation of all means	F2
Given or acquired to raise us from the mire	I4
And liberate our hearts from low pursuits	F2
By gross Utilities enslaved we need	J2
More of ennobling impulse from the past	J2
If to the future aught of good must come	A3
Sounder and therefore holier than the ends	F2
Which in the giddiness of self applause	F2
We covet as supreme O grant the crown	L2
That Wisdom wears or take his treacherous staff	J4
From Knowledge If the Muse whom I have served	J2
This day be mistress of a single pearl	K4
Fit to be placed in that pure diadem	A3
Then not in vain under these chestnut boughs	F2
Reclined shall I have yielded up my soul	X2
To transports from the secondary founts	F2
Flowing of time and place and paid to both	L4
Due homage nor shall fruitlessly have striven	L2
By love of beauty moved to enshrine in verse	F2
Accordant meditations which in times	F2
Vexed and disordered as our own may shed	J2
Influence at least among a scattered few	F4
To soberness of mind and peace of heart	J2
Friendly as here to my repose hath been	L2
This flowering broom's dear neighbourhood the light	J2
And murmur issuing from yon pendent flood	J2
And all the varied landscape Let us now	P2

William Wordsworth

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