The Excursion - Book Seventh - The Churchyard Among The Mountains - (continued) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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While thus from theme to theme the Historian passed	A
The words he uttered and the scene that lay	B
Before our eyes awakened in my mind	C
Vivid remembrance of those long past hours	D
When in the hollow of some shadowy vale	E
What time the splendour of the setting sun	F
Lay beautiful on Snowdon's sovereign brow	G
On Cader Idris or huge Penmanmaur	G
A wandering Youth I listened with delight	H
To pastoral melody or warlike air	G
Drawn from the chords of the ancient British harp	I
By some accomplished Master while he sate	J
Amid the quiet of the green recess	K
And there did inexhaustibly dispense	L
An interchange of soft or solemn tunes	M
Tender or blithe now as the varying mood	N
Of his own spirit urged now as a voice	O
From youth or maiden or some honoured chief	P
Of his compatriot villagers that hung	Q
Around him drinking in the impassioned notes	R
Of the time hallowed minstrelsy required	S
For their heart's ease or pleasure Strains of power	G
Were they to seize and occupy the sense	L
But to a higher mark than song can reach	T
Rose this pure eloquence And when the stream	U
Which overflowed the soul was passed away	B
A consciousness remained that it had left	V
Deposited upon the silent shore	G
Of memory images and precious thoughts	W
That shall not die and cannot be destroyed	X
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These grassy heaps lie amicably close	Y
Said I like surges heaving in the wind	C
Along the surface of a mountain pool	Z
Whence comes it then that yonder we behold	A2
Five graves and only five that rise together	G
Unsociably sequestered and encroaching	B2
On the smooth playground of the village school	Z
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The Vicar answered No disdainful pride	C2
In them who rest beneath nor any course	D2
Of strange or tragic accident hath helped	E2
To place those hillocks in that lonely guise	F2
Once more look forth and follow with your sight	H
The length of road that from yon mountain's base	G2
Through bare enclosures stretches 'till its line	H2
Is lost within a little tuft of trees	I2
Then reappearing in a moment quits	J2
The cultured fields and up the heathy waste	K2
Mounts as you see in mazes serpentine	H2
Led towards an easy outlet of the vale	E
That little shady spot that sylvan tuft	L2
By which the road is hidden also hides	M2
A cottage from our view though I discern	N2
Ye scarcely can amid its sheltering trees	I2
The smokeless chimney top	O2
All unembowered	L2
And naked stood that lowly Parsonage	P2
For such in truth it is and appertains	I2
To a small Chapel in the vale beyond	L2
When hither came its last Inhabitant	L2
Rough and forbidding were the choicest roads	I2
By which our northern wilds could then be crossed	L2
And into most of these secluded vales	I2
Was no access for wain heavy or light	L2
So at his dwelling place the Priest arrived	L2
With store of household goods in panniers slung	Q
On sturdy horses graced with jingling bells	I2
And on the back of more ignoble beast	L2
That with like burthen of effects most prized	L2
Or easiest carried closed the motley train	Q2
Young was I then a schoolboy of eight years	I2
But still methinks I see them as they passed	L2
In order drawing toward their wished for home	R2
Rocked by the motion of a trusty ass	I2
Two ruddy children hung a well poised freight	L2
Each in his basket nodding drowsily	E
Their bonnets I remember wreathed with flowers	I2
Which told it was the pleasant month of June	S2
And close behind the comely Matron rode	L2
A woman of soft speech and gracious smile	E
And with a lady's mien From far they came	T2
Even from Northumbrian hills yet theirs had been	U2
A merry journey rich in pastime cheered	L2
By music prank and laughter stirring jest	L2
And freak put on and arch word dropped to swell	E
The cloud of fancy and uncouth surmise	I2
That gathered round the slowly moving train	Q2
'Whence do they come and with what errand charged	L2
'Belong they to the fortune telling tribe	V2
'Who pitch their tents under the greenwood tree	G
'Or Strollers are they furnished to enact	L2
'Fair Rosamond and the Children of the Wood	L2
'And by that whiskered tabby's aid set forth	W2
'The lucky venture of sage Whittington	F
'When the next village hears the show announced	L2
'By blast of trumpet ' Plenteous was the growth	X2
Of such conjectures overheard or seen	Y2
On many a staring countenance portrayed	L2
Of boor or burgher as they marched along	Z2
And more than once their steadiness of face	I2
Was put to proof and exercise supplied	L2
To their inventive humour by stern looks	I2
And questions in authoritative tone	A3
From some staid guardian of the public peace	I2
Checking the sober steed on which he rode	L2
In his suspicious wisdom oftener still	E
By notice indirect or blunt demand	L2
From traveller halting in his own despite	L2
A simple curiosity to ease	I2
Of which adventures that beguiled and cheered	L2
Their grave migration the good pair would tell	E
With undiminished glee in hoary age	B3
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A Priest he was by function but his course	I2
From his youth up and high as manhood's noon	S2
The hour of life to which he then was brought	L2
Had been irregular I might say wild	L2
By books unsteadied by his pastoral care	G
Too little checked An active ardent mind	L2
A fancy pregnant with resource and scheme	U
To cheat the sadness of a rainy day	L2
Hands apt for all ingenious arts and games	I2
A generous spirit and a body strong	Z2
To cope with stoutest champions of the bowl	E
Had earned for him sure welcome and the rights	I2
Of a prized visitant in the jolly hall	E
Of country 'squire or at the statelier board	L2
Of duke or earl from scenes of courtly pomp	C3
Withdrawn to while away the summer hours	I2
In condescension among rural guests	I2
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With these high comrades he had revelled long	Z2
Frolicked industriously a simple Clerk	D3
By hopes of coming patronage beguiled	L2
Till the heart sickened So each loftier aim	T2
Abandoning and all his showy friends	I2
For a life's stay slender it was but sure	G
He turned to this secluded chapelry	G
That had been offered to his doubtful choice	I2
By an unthought of patron Bleak and bare	G
They found the cottage their allotted home	R2
Naked without and rude within a spot	L2
With which the Cure not long had been endowed	L2
And far remote the chapel stood remote	L2
And from his Dwelling unapproachable	E
Save through a gap high in the hills an opening	B2
Shadeless and shelterless by driving showers	I2
Frequented and beset with howling winds	I2
Yet cause was none whate'er regret might hang	E3
On his own mind to quarrel with the choice	I2
Or the necessity that fixed him here	G
Apart from old temptations and constrained	L2
To punctual labour in his sacred charge	F3
See him a constant preacher to the poor	G
And visiting though not with saintly zeal	E
Yet when need was with no reluctant will	E
The sick in body or distrest in mind	L2
And by a salutary change compelled	L2
To rise from timely sleep and meet the day	L2
With no engagement in his thoughts more proud	L2
Or splendid than his garden could afford	L2
His fields or mountains by the heath cock ranged	L2
Or the wild brooks from which he now returned	L2
Contented to partake the quiet meal	E
Of his own board where sat his gentle Mate	L2
And three fair Children plentifully fed	L2
Though simply from their little household farm	G3
Nor wanted timely treat of fish or fowl	E
By nature yielded to his practised hand	L2
To help the small but certain comings in	U2
Of that spare benefice Yet not the less	I2
Theirs was a hospitable board and theirs	I2
A charitable door	G
So days and years	I2
Passed on the inside of that rugged house	I2
Was trimmed and brightened by the Matron's care	G
And gradually enriched with things of price	I2
Which might be lacked for use or ornament	L2
What though no soft and costly sofa there	G
Insidiously stretched out its lazy length	H3
And no vain mirror glittered upon the walls	I2
Yet were the windows of the low abode	L2
By shutters weather fended which at once	I2
Repelled the storm and deadened its loud roar	G
There snow white curtains hung in decent folds	I2
Tough moss and long enduring mountain plants	I2
That creep along the ground with sinuous trail	E
Were nicely braided and composed a work	D3
Like Indian mats that with appropriate grace	I2
Lay at the threshold and the inner doors	I2
And a fair carpet woven of homespun wool	E
But tinctured daintily with florid hues	I2
For seemliness and warmth on festal days	I2
Covered the smooth blue slabs of mountain stone	A3
With which the parlour floor in simplest guise	I2
Of pastoral homesteads had been long inlaid	L2
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Those pleasing works the Housewife's skill produced	L2
Meanwhile the unsedentary Master's hand	L2
Was busier with his task to rid to plant	L2
To rear for food for shelter and delight	L2
A thriving covert And when wishes formed	L2
In youth and sanctioned by the riper mind	L2
Restored me to my native valley here	G
To end my days well pleased was I to see	G
The once bare cottage on the mountainside	L2
Screened from assault of every bitter blast	L2
While the dark shadows of the summer leaves	I2
Danced in the breeze chequering its mossy roof	I3
Time which had thus afforded willing help	J3
To beautify with nature's fairest growths	I2
This rustic tenement had gently shed	L2
Upon its Master's frame a wintry grace	I2
The comeliness of unenfeebled age	B3
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But how could I say gently for he still	E
Retained a flashing eye a burning palm	K3
A stirring foot a head which beat at nights	I2
Upon its pillow with a thousand schemes	I2
Few likings had he dropped few pleasures lost	L2
Generous and charitable prompt to serve	L3
And still his harsher passions kept their hold	L2
Anger and indignation Still he loved	L2
The sound of titled names and talked in glee	G
Of long past banquetings with high born friends	I2
Then from those lulling fits of vain delight	L2
Uproused by recollected injury railed	L2
At their false ways disdainfully and oft	L2
In bitterness and with a threatening eye	M3
Of fire incensed beneath its hoary brow	G
Those transports with staid looks of pure good will	E
And with soft smile his consort would reprove	L3
She far behind him in the race of years	I2
Yet keeping her first mildness was advanced	L2
Far nearer in the habit of her soul	E
To that still region whither all are bound	L2
Him might we liken to the setting sun	F
As seen not seldom on some gusty day	L2
Struggling and bold and shining from the west	L2
With an inconstant and unmellowed light	L2
She was a soft attendant cloud that hung	Q
As if with wish to veil the restless orb	N3
From which it did itself imbibe a ray	L2
Of pleasing lustre But no more of this	I2
I better love to sprinkle on the sod	L2
That now divides the pair or rather say	L2
That still unites them praises like heaven's dew	L2
Without reserve descending upon both	X2
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Our very first in eminence of years	I2
This old Man stood the patriarch of the Vale	E
And to his unmolested mansion death	O3
Had never come through space of forty years	I2
Sparing both old and young in that abode	L2
Suddenly then they disappeared not twice	I2
Had summer scorched the fields not twice had fallen	F
On those high peaks the first autumnal snow	P3
Before the greedy visiting was closed	L2
And the long privileged house left empty swept	L2
As by a plague Yet no rapacious plague	Q3
Had been among them all was gentle death	O3
One after one with intervals of peace	I2
A happy consummation an accord	L2
Sweet perfect to be wished for save that here	G
Was something which to mortal sense might sound	L2
Like harshness that the old grey headed Sire	G
The oldest he was taken last survived	L2
When the meek Partner of his age his Son	F
His Daughter and that late and high prized gift	L2
His little smiling Grandchild were no more	G
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'All gone all vanished he deprived and bare	G
'How will he face the remnant of his life	L3
'What will become of him ' we said and mused	L2
In sad conjectures 'Shall we meet him now	G
'Haunting with rod and line the craggy brooks	I2
'Or shall we overhear him as we pass	I2
'Striving to entertain the lonely hours	I2
'With music ' for he had not ceased to touch	R3
The harp or viol which himself had framed	L2
For their sweet purposes with perfect skill	E
'What titles will he keep will he remain	Q2
'Musician gardener builder mechanist	L2
'A planter and a rearer from the seed	L2
'A man of hope and forward looking mind	L2
'Even to the last ' Such was he unsubdued	L2
But Heaven was gracious yet a little while	E
And this Survivor with his cheerful throng	Z2
Of open projects and his inward hoard	L2
Of unsunned griefs too many and too keen	Y2
Was overcome by unexpected sleep	S3
In one blest moment Like a shadow thrown	A3
Softly and lightly from a passing cloud	L2
Death fell upon him while reclined he lay	L2
For noontide solace on the summer grass	I2
The warm lap of his mother earth and so	P3
Their lenient term of separation past	L2
That family whose graves you there behold	L2
By yet a higher privilege once more	G
Were gathered to each other	G
Calm of mind	L2
And silence waited on these closing words	I2
Until the Wanderer whether moved by fear	G
Lest in those passages of life were some	T3
That might have touched the sick heart of his Friend	L2
Too nearly or intent to reinforce	I2
His own firm spirit in degree deprest	L2
By tender sorrow for our mortal state	L2
Thus silence broke Behold a thoughtless Man	U3
From vice and premature decay preserved	L2
By useful habits to a fitter soil	E
Transplanted ere too late The hermit lodged	L2
Amid the untrodden desert tells his beads	I2
With each repeating its allotted prayer	G
And thus divides and thus relieves the time	V3
Smooth task with 'his' compared whose mind could string	B2
Not scantily bright minutes on the thread	L2
Of keen domestic anguish and beguile	E
A solitude unchosen unprofessed	L2
Till gentlest death released him	W3
Far from us	I2
Be the desire too curiously to ask	X3
How much of this is but the blind result	L2
Of cordial spirits and vital temperament	L2
And what to higher powers is justly due	L2
But you Sir know that in a neighbouring vale	E
A Priest abides before whose life such doubts	I2
Fall to the ground whose gifts of nature lie	M3
Retired from notice lost in attributes	I2
Of reason honourably effaced by debts	I2
Which her poor treasure house is content to owe	P3
And conquest over her dominion gained	L2
To which her frowardness must needs submit	L2
In this one Man is shown a temperance proof	L3
Against all trials industry severe	G
And constant as the motion of the day	L2
Stern self denial round him spread with shade	L2
That might be deemed forbidding did not there	G
All generous feelings flourish and rejoice	I2
Forbearance charity in deed and thought	L2
And resolution competent to take	Y3
Out of the bosom of simplicity	L2
All that her holy customs recommend	L2
And the best ages of the world prescribe	V2
Preaching administering in every work	D3
Of his sublime vocation in the walks	I2
Of worldly intercourse between man and man	U3
And in his humble dwelling he appears	I2
A labourer with moral virtue girt	L2
With spiritual graces like a glory crowned	L2
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Doubt can be none the Pastor said for whom	Z3
This portraiture is sketched The great the good	L2
The well beloved the fortunate the wise	I2
These titles emperors and chiefs have borne	A4
Honour assumed or given and him the WONDERFUL	E
Our simple shepherds speaking from the heart	L2
Deservedly have styled From his abode	L2
In a dependent chapelry that lies	I2
Behind yon hill a poor and rugged wild	L2
Which in his soul he lovingly embraced	L2
And having once espoused would never quit	L2
Into its graveyard will ere long be borne	A4
That lowly great good Man A simple stone	A3
May cover him and by its help perchance	I2
A century shall hear his name pronounced	L2
With images attendant on the sound	L2
Then shall the slowly gathering twilight close	I2
In utter night and of his course remain	Q2
No cognizable vestiges no more	G
Than of this breath which shapes itself in words	I2
To speak of him and instantly dissolves	I2
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The Pastor pressed by thoughts which round his theme	U
Still lingered after a brief pause resumed	L2
Noise is there not enough in doleful war	G
But that the heaven born poet must stand forth	W2
And lend the echoes of his sacred shell	E
To multiply and aggravate the din	U2
Pangs are there not enough in hopeless love	L3
And in requited passion all too much	R3
Of turbulence anxiety and fear	G
But that the minstrel of the rural shade	L2
Must tune his pipe insidiously to nurse	I2
The perturbation in the suffering breast	L2
And propagate its kind far as he may	L2
Ah who and with such rapture as befits	I2
The hallowed theme will rise and celebrate	L2
The good man's purposes and deeds retrace	I2
His struggles his discomfitures deplore	G
His triumphs hail and glorify his end	L2
That virtue like the fumes and vapoury clouds	I2
Through fancy's heat redounding in the brain	Q2
And like the soft infections of the heart	L2
By charm of measured words may spread o'er field	L2
Hamlet and town and piety survive	L3
Upon the lips of men in hall or bower	G
Not for reproof but high and warm delight	L2
And grave encouragement by song inspired	L2
Vain thought but wherefore murmur or repine	Q2
The memory of the just survives in heaven	Q2
And without sorrow will the ground receive	L3
That venerable clay Meanwhile the best	L2
Of what lies here confines us to degrees	I2
In excellence less difficult to reach	T
And milder worth nor need we travel far	G
From those to whom our last regards were paid	L2
For such example	E
Almost at the root	L2
Of that tall pine the shadow of whose bare	G
And slender stem while here I sit at eve	L3
Oft stretches towards me like a long straight path	B4
Traced faintly in the greensward there beneath	C4
A plain blue stone a gentle Dalesman lies	I2
From whom in early childhood was withdrawn	Q2
The precious gift of hearing He grew up	D4
From year to year in loneliness of soul	E
And this deep mountain valley was to him	W3
Soundless with all its streams The bird of dawn	Q2
Did never rouse this Cottager from sleep	S3
With startling summons not for his delight	L2
The vernal cuckoo shouted not for him	W3
Murmured the labouring bee When stormy winds	I2
Were working the broad bosom of the lake	Y3
Into a thousand thousand sparkling waves	I2
Rocking the trees or driving cloud on cloud	L2
Along the sharp edge of yon lofty crags	I2
The agitated scene before his eye	M3
Was silent as a picture evermore	G
Were all things silent wheresoe'er he moved	L2
Yet by the solace of his own pure thoughts	I2
Upheld he duteously pursued the round	L2
Of rural labours the steep mountain side	L2
Ascended with his staff and faithful dog	E4
The plough he guided and the scythe he swayed	L2
And the ripe corn before his sickle fell	E
Among the jocund reapers For himself	L3
All watchful and industrious as he was	I2
He wrought not neither field nor flock he owned	L2
No wish for wealth had place within his mind	L2
Nor husband's love nor father's hope or care	G
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Though born a younger brother need was none	Q2
That from the floor of his paternal home	R2
He should depart to plant himself anew	Q2
And when mature in manhood he beheld	L2
His parents laid in earth no loss ensued	L2
Of rights to him but he remained well pleased	L2
By the pure bond of independent love	L3
An inmate of a second family	L2
The fellow labourer and friend of him	W3
To whom the small inheritance had fallen	Q2
Nor deem that his mild presence was a weight	L2
That pressed upon his brother's house for books	I2
Were ready comrades whom he could not tire	G
Of whose society the blameless Man	Q2
Was never satiate Their familiar voice	I2
Even to old age with unabated charm	G3
Beguiled his leisure hours refreshed his thoughts	I2
Beyond its natural elevation raised	L2
His introverted spirit and bestowed	L2
Upon his life an outward dignity	L2
Which all acknowledged The dark winter night	L2
The stormy day each had its own resource	I2
Song of the muses sage historic tale	E
Science severe or word of holy Writ	L2
Announcing immortality and joy	F4
To the assembled spirits of just men	Q2
Made perfect and from injury secure	G
Thus soothed at home thus busy in the field	L2
To no perverse suspicion he gave way	L2
No languor peevishness nor vain complaint	L2
And they who were about him did not fail	E
In reverence or in courtesy they prized	L2
His gentle manners and his peaceful smiles	I2
The gleams of his slow varying countenance	I2
Were met with answering sympathy and love	L3
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At length when sixty years and five were told	L2
A slow disease insensibly consumed	L2
The powers of nature and a few short steps	I2
Of friends and kindred bore him from his home	R2
Yon cottage shaded by the woody crags	I2
To the profounder stillness of the grave	L3
Nor was his funeral denied the grace	I2
Of many tears virtuous and thoughtful grief	L3
Heart sorrow rendered sweet by gratitude	L2
And now that monumental stone preserves	I2
His name and unambitiously relates	I2
How long and by what kindly outward aids	I2
And in what pure contentedness of mind	L2
The sad privation was by him endured	L2
And yon tall pine tree whose composing sound	L2
Was wasted on the good Man's living ear	G
Hath now its own peculiar sanctity	L2
And at the touch of every wandering breeze	I2
Murmurs not idly o'er his peaceful grave	L3
	-
Soul cheering Light most bountiful of things	I2
Guide of our way mysterious comforter	G
Whose sacred influence spread through earth and heaven	Q2
We all too thanklessly participate	L2
Thy gifts were utterly withheld from him	W3
Whose place of rest is near yon ivied porch	G4
Yet of the wild brooks ask if he complained	L2
Ask of the channelled rivers if they held	L2
A safer easier more determined course	I2
What terror doth it strike into the mind	L2
To think of one blind and alone advancing	B2
Straight toward some precipice's airy brink	H4
But timely warned 'He' would have stayed his steps	I2
Protected say enlightened by his ear	G
And on the very edge of vacancy	L2
Not more endangered than a man whose eye	M3
Beholds the gulf beneath No floweret blooms	I2
Throughout the lofty range of these rough hills	I2
Nor in the woods that could from him conceal	E
Its birth place none whose figure did not live	L3
Upon his touch The bowels of the earth	I4
Enriched with knowledge his industrious mind	L2
The ocean paid him tribute from the stores	I2
Lodged in her bosom and by science led	L2
His genius mounted to the plains of heaven	Q2
Methinks I see him how his eye balls rolled	L2
Beneath his ample brow in darkness paired	L2
But each instinct with spirit and the frame	T2
Of the whole countenance alive with thought	L2
Fancy and understanding while the voice	I2
Discoursed of natural or moral truth	J4
With eloquence and such authentic power	G
That in his presence humbler knowledge stood	L2
Abashed and tender pity overawed	L2
	-
A noble and to unreflecting minds	I2
A marvellous spectacle the Wanderer said	L2
Beings like these present But proof abounds	I2
Upon the earth that faculties which seem	U
Extinguished do not 'therefore' cease to be	L2
And to the mind among her powers of sense	I2
This transfer is permitted not alone	Q2
That the bereft their recompense may win	Q2
But for remoter purposes of love	L3
And charity nor last nor least for this	I2
That to the imagination may be given	Q2
A type and shadow of an awful truth	J4
How likewise under sufferance divine	Q2
Darkness is banished from the realms of death	O3
By man's imperishable spirit quelled	L2
Unto the men who see not as we see	L2
Futurity was thought in ancient times	I2
To be laid open and they prophesied	L2
And know we not that from the blind have flowed	L2
The highest holiest raptures of the lyre	G
And wisdom married to immortal verse	I2
	-
Among the humbler Worthies at our feet	L2
Lying insensible to human praise	I2
Love or regret 'whose' lineaments would next	L2
Have been portrayed I guess not but it chanced	L2
That near the quiet churchyard where we sate	L2
A team of horses with a ponderous freight	L2
Pressing behind adown a rugged slope	K4
Whose sharp descent confounded their array	L2
Came at that moment ringing noisily	L2
	-
Here said the Pastor do we muse and mourn	Q2
The waste of death and lo the giant oak	L4
Stretched on his bier that massy timber wain	Q2
Nor fail to note the Man who guides the team	U
	-
He was a peasant of the lowest class	I2
Grey locks profusely round his temples hung	Q
In clustering curls like ivy which the bite	L2
Of winter cannot thin the fresh air lodged	L2
Within his cheek as light within a cloud	L2
And he returned our greeting with a smile	E
When he had passed the Solitary spake	Y3
A Man he seems of cheerful yesterdays	I2
And confident to morrows with a face	I2
Not worldly minded for it bears too much	R3
Of Nature's impress gaiety and health	M4
Freedom and hope but keen withal and shrewd	L2
His gestures note and hark his tones of voice	I2
Are all vivacious as his mien and looks	I2
	-
The Pastor answered You have read him well	E
Year after year is added to his store	G
With 'silent' increase summers winters past	L2
Past or to come yea boldly might I say	L2
Ten summers and ten winters of a space	I2
That lies beyond life's ordinary bounds	I2
Upon his sprightly vigour cannot fix	I2
The obligation of an anxious mind	L2
A pride in having or a fear to lose	I2
Possessed like outskirts of some large domain	Q2
By any one more thought of than by him	W3
Who holds the land in fee its careless lord	L2
Yet is the creature rational endowed	L2
With foresight hears too every sabbath day	L2
The christian promise with attentive ear	G
Nor will I trust the Majesty of Heaven	Q2
Reject the incense offered up by him	W3
Though of the kind which beasts and birds present	L2
In grove or pasture cheerfulness of soul	E
From trepidation and repining free	L2
How many scrupulous worshippers fall down	Q2
Upon their knees and daily homage pay	L2
Less worthy less religious even than his	I2
	-
This qualified respect the old Man's due	L2
Is paid without reluctance but in truth	J4
Said the good Vicar with a fond half smile	E
I feel at times a motion of despite	L2
Towards one whose bold contrivances and skill	E
As you have seen bear such conspicuous part	L2
In works of havoc taking from these vales	I2
One after one their proudest ornaments	I2
Full oft his doings leave me to deplore	G
Tall ash tree sown by winds by vapours nursed	L2
In the dry crannies of the pendent rocks	I2
Light birch aloft upon the horizon's edge	N4
A veil of glory for the ascending moon	Q2
And oak whose roots by noontide dew were damped	L2
And on whose forehead inaccessible	E
The raven lodged in safety Many a ship	O4
Launched into Morecamb bay to 'him' hath owed	L2
Her strong knee timbers and the mast that bears	I2
The loftiest of her pendants He from park	P4
Or forest fetched the enormous axle tree	L2
That whirls how slow itself ten thousand spindles	I2
And the vast engine labouring in the mine	Q2
Content with meaner prowess must have lacked	L2
The trunk and body of its marvellous strength	H3
If his undaunted enterprise had failed	L2
Among the mountain coves	I2
Yon household fir	G
A guardian planted to fence off the blast	L2
But towering high the roof above as if	L3
Its humble destination were forgot	L2
That sycamore which annually holds	I2
Within its shade as in a stately tent	L2
On all sides open to the fanning breeze	I2
A grave assemblage seated while they shear	G
The fleece encumbered flock the JOYFUL ELM	Q4
Around whose trunk the maidens dance in May	L2
And the LORD'S OAK would plead their several rights	I2
In vain if he were master of their fate	L2
His sentence to the axe would doom them all	E
But green in age and lusty as he is	I2
And promising to keep his hold on earth	I4
Less as might seem in rivalship with men	Q2
Than with the forest's more enduring growth	X2
His own appointed hour will come at last	L2
And like the haughty Spoilers of the world	L2
This keen Destroyer in his turn must fall	E
	-
Now from the living pass we once again	Q2
From Age the Priest continued turn your thoughts	I2
From Age that often unlamented drops	I2
And mark that daisied hillock three spans long	Z2
Seven lusty Sons sate daily round the board	L2
Of Gold rill side and when the hope had ceased	L2
Of other progeny a Daughter then	Q2
Was given the crowning bounty of the whole	E
And so acknowledged with a tremulous joy	F4
Felt to the centre of that heavenly calm	K3
With which by nature every mother's soul	E
Is stricken in the moment when her throes	I2
Are ended and her ears have heard the cry	M3
Which tells her that a living child is born	Q2
And she lies conscious in a blissful rest	L2
That the dread storm is weathered by them both	X2
	-
The Father him at this unlooked for gift	L2
A bolder transport seizes From the side	L2
Of his bright hearth and from his open door	G
Day after day the gladness is diffused	L2
To all that come almost to all that pass	I2
Invited summoned to partake the cheer	G
Spread on the never empty board and drink	H4
Health and good wishes to his new born girl	E
From cups replenished by his joyous hand	L2
Those seven fair brothers variously were moved	L2
Each by the thoughts best suited to his years	I2
But most of all and with most thankful mind	L2
The hoary grandsire felt himself enriched	L2
A happiness that ebbed not but remained	L2
To fill the total measure of his soul	E
From the low tenement his own abode	L2
Whither as to a little private cell	E
He had withdrawn from bustle care and noise	I2
To spend the sabbath of old age in peace	I2
Once every day he duteously repaired	L2
To rock the cradle of the slumbering babe	R4
For in that female infant's name he heard	L2
The silent name of his departed wife	L3
Heart stirring music hourly heard that name	T2
Full blest he was 'Another Margaret Green '	-
Oft did he say 'was come to Gold rill side '	-
	-
Oh pang unthought of as the precious boon	Q2
Itself had been unlooked for oh dire stroke	L4
Of desolating anguish for them all	E
Just as the Child could totter on the floor	G
And by some friendly finger's help up stayed	L2
Range round the garden walk while she perchance	I2
Was catching at some novelty of spring	B2
Ground flower or glossy insect from its cell	E
Drawn by the sunshine at that hopeful season	Q2
The winds of March smiting insidiously	E
Raised in the tender passage of the throat	L2
Viewless obstruction whence all unforewarned	L2
The household lost their pride and soul's delight	L2
But time hath power to soften all regrets	I2
And prayer and thought can bring to worst distress	I2
Due resignation Therefore though some tears	I2
Fail not to spring from either Parent's eye	M3
Oft as they hear of sorrow like their own	Q2
Yet this departed Little one too long	Z2
The innocent troubler of their quiet sleeps	I2
In what may now be called a peaceful bed	L2
	-
On a bright day so calm and bright it seemed	L2
To us with our sad spirits heavenly fair	G
These mountains echoed to an unknown sound	L2
A volley thrice repeated o'er the Corse	I2
Let down into the hollow of that grave	L3
Whose shelving sides are red with naked mould	L2
Ye rains of April duly wet this earth	I4
Spare burning sun of midsummer these sods	I2
That they may knit together and therewith	I4
Our thoughts unite in kindred quietness	I2
Nor so the Valley shall forget her loss	I2
Dear Youth by young and old alike beloved	L2
To me as precious as my own Green herbs	I2
May creep I wish that they would softly creep	S3
Over thy last abode and we may pass	I2
Reminded less imperiously of thee	I4
The ridge itself may sink into the breast	L2
Of earth the great abyss and be no more	G
Yet shall not thy remembrance leave our hearts	I2
Thy image disappear	G
The Mountain ash	S4
No eye can overlook when 'mid a grove	L3
Of yet unfaded trees she lifts her head	L2
Decked with autumnal berries that outshine	Q2
Spring's richest blossoms and ye may have marked	L2
By a brook side or solitary tarn	Q2
How she her station doth adorn the pool	E
Glows at her feet and all the gloomy rocks	I2
Are brightened round her In his native vale	E
Such and so glorious did this Youth appear	G
A sight that kindled pleasure in all hearts	I2
By his ingenuous beauty by the gleam	U
Of his fair eyes by his capacious brow	G
By all the graces with which nature's hand	L2
Had lavishly arrayed him As old bards	I2
Tell in their idle songs of wandering gods	I2
Pan or Apollo veiled in human form	T4
Yet like the sweet breathed violet of the shade	L2
Discovered in their own despite to sense	I2
Of mortals if such fables without blame	T2
May find chance mention on this sacred ground	L2
So through a simple rustic garb's disguise	I2
And through the impediment of rural cares	I2
In him revealed a scholar's genius shone	Q2
And so not wholly hidden from men's sight	L2
In him the spirit of a hero walked	L2
Our unpretending valley How the quoit	L2
Whizzed from the Stripling's arm If touched by him	W3
The inglorious foot ball mounted to the pitch	U4
Of the lark's flight or shaped a rainbow curve	L3
Aloft in prospect of the shouting field	L2
The indefatigable fox had learned	L2
To dread his perseverance in the chase	I2
With admiration would he lift his eyes	I2
To the wide ruling eagle and his hand	L2
Was loth to assault the majesty he loved	L2
Else had the strongest fastnesses proved weak	V4
To guard the royal brood The sailing glead	L2
The wheeling swallow and the darting snipe	W4
The sportive sea gull dancing with the waves	I2
And cautious water fowl from distant climes	I2
Fixed at their seat the centre of the Mere	G
Were subject to young Oswald's steady aim	T2
And lived by his forbearance	I2
From the coast	L2
Of France a boastful Tyrant hurled his threats	I2
Our Country marked the preparation vast	L2
Of hostile forces and she called with voice	I2
That filled her plains that reached her utmost shores	I2
And in remotest vales was heard to arms	I2
Then for the first time here you might have seen	Q2
The shepherd's grey to martial scarlet changed	L2
That flashed uncouthly through the woods and fields	I2
Ten hardy Striplings all in bright attire	G
And graced with shining weapons weekly marched	L2
From this lone valley to a central spot	L2
Where in assemblage with the flower and choice	I2
Of the surrounding district they might learn	Q2
The rudiments of war ten hardy strong	Z2
And valiant but young Oswald like a chief	L3
And yet a modest comrade led them forth	I4
From their shy solitude to face the world	L2
With a gay confidence and seemly pride	L2
Measuring the soil beneath their happy feet	L2
Like Youths released from labour and yet bound	L2
To most laborious service though to them	X4
A festival of unencumbered ease	I2
The inner spirit keeping holiday	L2
Like vernal ground to sabbath sunshine left	L2
	-
Oft have I marked him at some leisure hour	G
Stretched on the grass or seated in the shade	L2
Among his fellows while an ample map	Y4
Before their eyes lay carefully outspread	L2
From which the gallant teacher would discourse	I2
Now pointing this way and now that 'Here flows '	-
Thus would he say 'the Rhine that famous stream	U
'Eastward the Danube toward this inland sea	I2
'A mightier river winds from realm to realm	Q4
'And like a serpent shows his glittering back	Z4
'Bespotted with innumerable isles	I2
'Here reigns the Russian there the Turk observe	L3
'His capital city ' Thence along a tract	L2
Of livelier interest to his hopes and fears	I2
His finger moved distinguishing the spots	I2
Where wide spread conflict then most fiercely raged	L2
Nor left unstigmatized those fatal fields	I2
On which the sons of mighty Germany	I2
Were taught a base submission 'Here behold	L2
'A nobler race the Switzers and their land	L2
'Vales deeper far than these of ours huge woods	I2
'And mountains white with everlasting snow '	-
And surely he that spake with kindling brow	G
Was a true patriot hopeful as the best	L2
Of that young peasantry who in our days	I2
Have fought and perished for Helvetia's rights	I2
Ah not in vain or those who in old time	V3
For work of happier issue to the side	L2
Of Tell came trooping from a thousand huts	I2
When he had risen alone No braver Youth	I4
Descended from Judean heights to march
With righteous Joshua nor appeared in arms	I2
When grove was felled and altar was cast down	Q2
And Gideon blew the trumpet soul inflamed	L2
And strong in hatred of idolatry	I2
	-
The Pastor even as if by these last words	I2
Raised from his seat within the chosen shade	L2
Moved toward the grave instinctively his steps	I2
We followed and my voice with joy exclaimed	L2
Power to the Oppressors of the world is given	Q2
A might of which they dream not Oh the curse	I2
To be the awakener of divinest thoughts	I2
Father and founder of exalted deeds	I2
And to whole nations bound in servile straits	I2
The liberal donor of capacities	I2
More than heroic this to be nor yet	L2
Have sense of one connatural wish nor yet	L2
Deserve the least return of human thanks	I2
Winning no recompense but deadly hate	L2
With pity mixed astonishment with scorn	Q2
	-
When this involuntary strain had ceased	L2
The Pastor said So Providence is served	L2
The forked weapon of the skies can send	L2
Illumination into deep dark holds	I2
Which the mild sunbeam hath not power to pierce	I2
Ye Thrones that have defied remorse and cast	L2
Pity away soon shall ye quake with 'fear'	I2
For not unconscious of the mighty debt	L2
Which to outrageous wrong the sufferer owes	I2
Europe through all her habitable bounds	I2
Is thirsting for 'their' overthrow who yet	L2
Survive as pagan temples stood of yore	I2
By horror of their impious rites preserved	L2
Are still permitted to extend their pride	L2
Like cedars on the top of Lebanon	Q2
Darkening the sun	Q2
But less impatient thoughts	I2
And love 'all hoping and expecting all '	-
This hallowed grave demands where rests in peace	I2
A humble champion of the better cause	I2
A Peasant youth so call him for he asked	L2
No higher name in whom our country showed	L2
As in a favourite son most beautiful	E
In spite of vice and misery and disease	I2
Spread with the spreading of her wealthy arts	I2
England the ancient and the free appeared	L2
In him to stand before my swimming eyes	I2
Unconquerably virtuous and secure	I2
No more of this lest I offend his dust	L2
Short was his life and a brief tale remains	I2
	-
One day a summer's day of annual pomp	C3
And solemn chase from morn to sultry noon	Q2
His steps had followed fleetest of the fleet	L2
The red deer driven along its native heights	I2
With cry of hound and horn and from that toil	E
Returned with sinews weakened and relaxed	L2
This generous Youth too negligent of self	L3
Plunged 'mid a gay and busy throng convened	L2
To wash the fleeces of his Father's flock
Into the chilling flood Convulsions dire	I2
Seized him that self same night and through the space	I2
Of twelve ensuing days his frame was wrenched	L2
Till nature rested from her work in death	I4
To him thus snatched away his comrades paid	L2
A soldier's honours At his funeral hour	I2
Bright was the sun the sky a cloudless blue	E
A golden lustre slept upon the hills	I2
And if by chance a stranger wandering there	I2
From some commanding eminence had looked	L2
Down on this spot well pleased would he have seen	Q2
A glittering spectacle but every face	I2
Was pallid seldom hath that eye been moist	L2
With tears that wept not then nor were the few	E
Who from their dwellings came not forth to join	Q2
In this sad service less disturbed than we	I2
They started at the tributary peal	E
Of instantaneous thunder which announced	L2
Through the still air the closing of the Grave	L3
And distant mountains echoed with a sound	L2
Of lamentation never heard before	I2
	-
The Pastor ceased My venerable Friend	L2
Victoriously upraised his clear bright eye	M3
And when that eulogy was ended stood	L2
Enrapt as if his inward sense perceived	L2
The prolongation of some still response	I2
Sent by the ancient Soul of this wide land	L2
The Spirit of its mountains and its seas	I2
Its cities temples fields its awful power	I2
Its rights and virtues by that Deity	I2
Descending and supporting his pure heart	L2
With patriotic confidence and joy	F4
And at the last of those memorial words	I2
The pining Solitary turned aside	L2
Whether through manly instinct to conceal	E
Tender emotions spreading from the heart	L2
To his worn cheek or with uneasy shame	T2
For those cold humours of habitual spleen	Q2
That fondly seeking in dispraise of man	Q2
Solace and self excuse had sometimes urged	L2
To self abuse a not ineloquent tongue	Q
Right toward the sacred Edifice his steps	I2
Had been directed and we saw him now	G
Intent upon a monumental stone	Q2
Whose uncouth form was grafted on the wall	E
Or rather seemed to have grown into the side	L2
Of the rude pile as oft times trunks of trees	I2
Where nature works in wild and craggy spots	I2
Are seen incorporate with the living rock
To endure for aye The Vicar taking note	L2
Of his employment with a courteous smile	E
Exclaimed	L2
The sagest Antiquarian's eye	M3
That task would foil then letting fall his voice	I2
While he advanced thus spake Tradition tells	I2
That in Eliza's golden days a Knight	L2
Came on a war horse sumptuously attired	L2
And fixed his home in this sequestered vale	E
'Tis left untold if here he first drew breath	I4
Or as a stranger reached this deep recess	I2
Unknowing and unknown A pleasing thought	L2
I sometimes entertain that haply bound	L2
To Scotland's court in service of his Queen	Q2
Or sent on mission to some northern Chief	L3
Of England's realm this vale he might have seen	Q2
With transient observation and thence caught	L2
An image fair which brightening in his soul	E
When joy of war and pride of chivalry	I2
Languished beneath accumulated years	I2
Had power to draw him from the world resolved	L2
To make that paradise his chosen home	R2
To which his peaceful fancy oft had turned	L2
	-
Vague thoughts are these but if belief may rest	L2
Upon unwritten story fondly traced	L2
From sire to son in this obscure retreat	L2
The Knight arrived with spear and shield and borne	Q2
Upon a Charger gorgeously bedecked	L2
With broidered housings And the lofty Steed	L2
His sole companion and his faithful friend	L2
Whom he in gratitude let loose to range
In fertile pastures was beheld with eyes	I2
Of admiration and delightful awe
By those untravelled Dalesmen With less pride	L2
Yet free from touch of envious discontent	L2
They saw a mansion at his bidding rise	I2
Like a bright star amid the lowly band	L2
Of their rude homesteads Here the Warrior dwelt	L2
And in that mansion children of his own	Q2
Or kindred gathered round him As a tree	I2
That falls and disappears the house is gone	Q2
And through improvidence or want of love	L3
For ancient worth and honourable things	I2
The spear and shield are vanished which the Knight	L2
Hung in his rustic hall One ivied arch
Myself have seen a gateway last remains	I2
Of that foundation in domestic care	I2
Raised by his hands And now no trace is left	L2
Of the mild hearted Champion save this stone	Q2
Faithless memorial and his family name	T2
Borne by yon clustering cottages that sprang	E3
From out the ruins of his stately lodge
These and the name and title at full length	I4
'Sir Alfred Irthing' with appropriate words	I2
Accompanied still extant in a wreath	I4
Or posy girding round the several fronts	I2
Of three clear sounding and harmonious bells	I2
That in the steeple hang his pious gift	L2
	-
So fails so languishes grows dim and dies	I2
The grey haired Wanderer pensively exclaimed	L2
All that this world is proud of From their spheres	I2
The stars of human glory are cast down	Q2
Perish the roses and the flowers of kings	I2
Princes and emperors and the crowns and palms	I2
Of all the mighty withered and consumed	L2
Nor is power given to lowliest innocence	I2
Long to protect her own The man himself	L3
Departs and soon is spent the line of those	I2
Who in the bodily image in the mind	L2
In heart or soul in station or pursuit	L2
Did most resemble him Degrees and ranks	I2
Fraternities and orders heaping high	M3
New wealth upon the burthen of the old	L2
And placing trust in privilege confirmed	L2
And re confirmed are scoffed at with a smile	E
Of greedy foretaste from the secret stand	L2
Of Desolation aimed to slow decline	Q2
These yield and these to sudden overthrow	I2
Their virtue service happiness and state	L2
Expire and nature's pleasant robe of green	Q2
Humanity's appointed shroud enwraps	I2
Their monuments and their memory The vast Frame	T2
Of social nature changes evermore	I2
Her organs and her members with decay	L2
Restless and restless generation powers	I2
And functions dying and produced at need	L2
And by this law the mighty whole subsists	I2
With an ascent and progress in the main	Q2
Yet oh how disproportioned to the hopes	I2
And expectations of self flattering minds	I2
	-
The courteous Knight whose bones are here interred	L2
Lived in an age conspicuous as our own	Q2
For strife and ferment in the minds of men	Q2
Whence alteration in the forms of things	I2
Various and vast A memorable age	B3
Which did to him assign a pensive lot	L2
To linger 'mid the last of those bright clouds	I2
That on the steady breeze of honour sailed	L2
In long procession calm and beautiful	E
He who had seen his own bright order fade	L2
And its devotion gradually decline	Q2
While war relinquishing the lance and shield	L2
Her temper changed and bowed to other laws	I2
Had also witnessed in his morn of life	L3
That violent commotion which o'erthrew	I2
In town and city and sequestered glen	Q2
Altar and cross and church of solemn roof	L3
And old religious house pile after pile	E
And shook their tenants out into the fields	I2
Like wild beasts without home Their hour was come	T3
But why no softening thought of gratitude	L2
No just remembrance scruple or wise doubt	L2
Benevolence is mild nor borrows help	J3
Save at worst need from bold impetuous force	I2
Fitliest allied to anger and revenge
But Human kind rejoices in the might	L2
Of mutability and airy hopes	I2
Dancing around her hinder and disturb
Those meditations of the soul that feed	L2
The retrospective virtues Festive songs	I2
Break from the maddened nations at the sight	L2
Of sudden overthrow and cold neglect	L2
Is the sure consequence of slow decay	L2
	-
Even said the Wanderer as that courteous Knight	L2
Bound by his vow to labour for redress	I2
Of all who suffer wrong and to enact	L2
By sword and lance the law of gentleness	I2
If I may venture of myself to speak	V4
Trusting that not incongruously I blend	L2
Low things with lofty I too shall be doomed	L2
To outlive the kindly use and fair esteem	U
Of the poor calling which my youth embraced	L2
With no unworthy prospect But enough	L3
Thoughts crowd upon me and 'twere seemlier now	G
To stop and yield our gracious Teacher thanks	I2
For the pathetic records which his voice	I2
Hath here delivered words of heartfelt truth	I4
Tending to patience when affliction strikes	I2
To hope and love to confident repose	I2
In God and reverence for the dust of Man	Q2

William Wordsworth

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