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'These Tourists heaven preserve us needs must live	A
A profitable life some glance along	B
Rapid and gay as if the earth were air	C
And they were butterflies to wheel about	D
Long as the summer lasted some as wise	E
Perched on the forehead of a jutting crag	B
Pencil in hand and book upon the knee	F
Will look and scribble scribble on and look	B
Until a man might travel twelve stout miles	G
Or reap an acre of his neighbour's corn	H
But for that moping Son of Idleness	I
Why can he tarry 'yonder' In our churchyard	J
Is neither epitaph nor monument	K
Tombstone nor name only the turf we tread	L
And a few natural graves '	M
To Jane his wife	N
Thus spake the homely Priest of Ennerdale	O
It was a July evening and he sate	P
Upon the long stone seat beneath the eaves	Q
Of his old cottage as it chanced that day	R
Employed in winter's work Upon the stone	S
His wife sate near him teasing matted wool	O
While from the twin cards toothed with glittering wire	T
He fed the spindle of his youngest child	U
Who in the open air with due accord	V
Of busy hands and back and forward steps	W
Her large round wheel was turning Towards the field	X
In which the Parish Chapel stood alone	S
Girt round with a bare ring of mossy wall	O
While half an hour went by the Priest had sent	Y
Many a long look of wonder and at last	Z
Risen from his seat beside the snow white ridge	A2
Of carded wool which the old man had piled	U
He laid his implements with gentle care	C
Each in the other locked and down the path	B2
That from his cottage to the church yard led	L
He took his way impatient to accost	C2
The Stranger whom he saw still lingering there	C
'Twas one well known to him in former days	D2
A Shepherd lad who ere his sixteenth year	E2
Had left that calling tempted to entrust	F2
His expectations to the fickle winds	G2
And perilous waters with the mariners	H2
A fellow mariner and so had fared	I2
Through twenty seasons but he had been reared	J2
Among the mountains and he in his heart	K2
Was half a shepherd on the stormy seas	L2
Oft in the piping shrouds had Leonard heard	M2
The tones of waterfalls and inland sounds	N2
Of caves and trees and when the regular wind	O2
Between the tropics filled the steady sail	O
And blew with the same breath through days and weeks	P2
Lengthening invisibly its weary line	Q2
Along the cloudless Main he in those hours	H2
Of tiresome indolence would often hang	B
Over the vessel's side and gaze and gaze	D2
And while the broad blue wave and sparkling foam	R2
Flashed round him images and hues that wrought	S2
In union with the employment of his heart	K2
He thus by feverish passion overcome	T2
Even with the organs of his bodily eye	U2
Below him in the bosom of the deep	V2
Saw mountains saw the forms of sheep that grazed	W2
On verdant hills with dwellings among trees	L2
And shepherds clad in the same country grey	R
Which he himself had worn	H
And now at last	Z
From perils manifold with some small wealth	X2
Acquired by traffic 'mid the Indian Isles	G
To his paternal home he is returned	Y2
With a determined purpose to resume	Z2
The life he had lived there both for the sake	B
Of many darling pleasures and the love	A3
Which to an only brother he has borne	H
In all his hardships since that happy time	B3
When whether it blew foul or fair they two	C3
Were brother shepherds on their native hills	D3
They were the last of all their race and now	E3
When Leonard had approached his home his heart	K2
Failed in him and not venturing to enquire	T
Tidings of one so long and dearly loved	F3
He to the solitary churchyard turned	Y2
That as he knew in what particular spot	G3
His family were laid he thence might learn	H3
If still his Brother lived or to the file	O
Another grave was added He had found	I3
Another grave near which a full half hour	T
He had remained but as he gazed there grew	C3
Such a confusion in his memory	F
That he began to doubt and even to hope	J3
That he had seen this heap of turf before	K3
That it was not another grave but one	L3
He had forgotten He had lost his path	B2
As up the vale that afternoon he walked	M3
Through fields which once had been well known to him	N3
And oh what joy this recollection now	E3
Sent to his heart he lifted up his eyes	E
And looking round imagined that he saw	O3
Strange alteration wrought on every side	P3
Among the woods and fields and that the rocks	Q3
And everlasting hills themselves were changed	R3
By this the Priest who down the field had come	T2
Unseen by Leonard at the churchyard gate	P
Stopped short and thence at leisure limb by limb	N3
Perused him with a gay complacency	F
Ay thought the Vicar smiling to himself	S3
'Tis one of those who needs must leave the path	B2
Of the world's business to go wild alone	S
His arms have a perpetual holiday	R
The happy man will creep about the fields	T3
Following his fancies by the hour to bring	B
Tears down his cheek or solitary smiles	G
Into his face until the setting sun	L3
Write fool upon his forehead Planted thus	I
Beneath a shed that over arched the gate	P
Of this rude churchyard till the stars appeared	J2
The good Man might have communed with himself	S3
But that the Stranger who had left the grave	U3
Approached he recognised the Priest at once	V3
And after greetings interchanged and given	L3
By Leonard to the Vicar as to one	L3
Unknown to him this dialogue ensued	W3
LEONARD You live Sir in these dales a quiet life	N
Your years make up one peaceful family	F
And who would grieve and fret if welcome come	T2
And welcome gone they are so like each other	T
They cannot be remembered Scarce a funeral	O
Comes to this churchyard once in eighteen months	X3
And yet some changes must take place among you	C3
And you who dwell here even among these rocks	Q3
Can trace the finger of mortality	F
And see that with our threescore years and ten	Y3
We are not all that perish I remember	T
For many years ago I passed this road	Z3
There was a foot way all along the fields	T3
By the brook side 'tis gone and that dark cleft	A4
To me it does not seem to wear the face	B4
Which then it had	C4
PRIEST Nay Sir for aught I know	D4
That chasm is much the same	E4
LEONARD But surely yonder	T
PRIEST Ay there indeed your memory is a friend	F4
That does not play you false On that tall pike	B
It is the loneliest place of all these hills	D3
There were two springs which bubbled side by side	P3
As if they had been made that they might be	F
Companions for each other the huge crag	B
Was rent with lightning one hath disappeared	J2
The other left behind is flowing still	O
For accidents and changes such as these	L2
We want not store of them a waterspout	J2
Will bring down half a mountain what a feast	J2
For folks that wander up and down like you	C3
To see an acre's breadth of that wide cliff	G4
One roaring cataract a sharp May storm	H4
Will come with loads of January snow	D4
And in one night send twenty score of sheep	V2
To feed the ravens or a shepherd dies	E
By some untoward death among the rocks	Q3
The ice breaks up and sweeps away a bridge	A2
A wood is felled and then for our own homes	I4
A child is born or christened a field ploughed	J2
A daughter sent to service a web spun	L3
The old house clock is decked with a new face	B4
And hence so far from wanting facts or dates	J4
To chronicle the time we all have here	K4
A pair of diaries one serving Sir	T
For the whole dale and one for each fireside	J2
Yours was a stranger's judgment for historians	L4
Commend me to these valleys	L2
LEONARD Yet your Churchyard	J2
Seems if such freedom may be used with you	C3
To say that you are heedless of the past	J2
An orphan could not find his mother's grave	U3
Here's neither head nor foot stone plate of brass	M4
Cross bones nor skull type of our earthly state	J2
Nor emblem of our hopes the dead man's home	R2
Is but a fellow to that pasture field	J2
PRIEST Why there Sir is a thought that's new to me	F
The stone cutters 'tis true might beg their bread	J2
If every English churchyard were like ours	H2
Yet your conclusion wanders from the truth	N4
We have no need of names and epitaphs	O4
We talk	B

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