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The valley rings with mirth and joy	A
Among the hills the echoes play	B
A never never ending song	C
To welcome in the May	B
The magpie chatters with delight	D
The mountain raven's youngling brood	E
Have left the mother and the nest	F
And they go rambling east and west	F
In search of their own food	E
Or through the glittering vapors dart	G
In very wantonness of heart	G
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Beneath a rock upon the grass	H
Two boys are sitting in the sun	I
Their work if any work they have	J
Is out of mind or done	I
On pipes of sycamore they play	B
The fragments of a Christmas hymn	K
Or with that plant which in our dale	L
We call stag horn or fox's tail	L
Their rusty hats they trim	K
And thus as happy as the day	B
Those Shepherds wear the time away	B
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Along the river's stony marge	M
The sand lark chants a joyous song	C
The thrush is busy in the wood	N
And carols loud and strong	C
A thousand lambs are on the rocks	O
All newly born both earth and sky	P
Keep jubilee and more than all	Q
Those boys with their green coronal	Q
They never hear the cry	P
That plaintive cry which up the hill	Q
Comes from the depth of Dungeon Ghyll	Q
	-
Said Walter leaping from the ground	R
'Down to the stump of yon old yew	S
We'll for our whistles run a race '	-
Away the shepherds flew	S
They leapt they ran and when they came	T
Right opposite to Dungeon Ghyll	S
Seeing that he should lose the prize	U
'Stop ' to his comrade Walter cries	U
James stopped with no good will	S
Said Walter then exulting 'Here	P
You'll find a task for half a year	P
	-
Cross if you dare where I shall cross	V
Come on and tread where I shall tread '	-
The other took him at his word	W
And followed as he led	X
It was a spot which you may see	Y
If ever you to Langdale go	Z
Into a chasm a mighty block	A2
Hath fallen and made a bridge of rock	A2
The gulf is deep below	Z
And in a basin black and small	S
Receives a lofty waterfall	S
	-
With staff in hand across the cleft	B2
The challenger pursued his march	C2
And now all eyes and feet hath gained	D2
The middle of the arch	C2
When list he hears a piteous moan	E2
Again his heart within him dies	U
His pulse is stopped his breath is lost	F2
He totters pallid as a ghost	G2
And looking down espies	U
A lamb that in the pool is pent	H2
Within that black and frightful rent	H2
	-
The lamb had slipped into the stream	I2
And safe without a bruise or wound	R
The cataract had borne him down	J2
Into the gulf profound	R
His dam had seen him when he fell	S
She saw him down the torrent borne	K2
And while with all a mother's love	L2
She from the lofty rocks above	L2
Sent forth a cry forlorn	K2
The lamb still swimming round and round	R
Made answer to that plaintive sound	R
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When he had learnt what thing it was	U
That sent this rueful cry I ween	K2
The Boy recovered heart and told	M2
The sight which he had seen	K2
Both gladly now deferred their task	N2
Nor was there wanting other aid	O2
A Poet one who loves the brooks	U
Far better than the sages' books	U
By chance had thither strayed	O2
And there the helpless lamb he found	R
By those huge rocks encompassed round	R
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He drew it from the troubled pool	S
And brought it forth into the light	D
The Shepherds met him with his charge	M
An unexpected sight	D
Into their arms the lamb they took	P2
Whose life and limbs the flood had spared	Q2
Then up the steep ascent they hied	Q2
And placed him at his mother's side	Q2
And gently did the Bard	Q2
Those idle Shepherd Boys upbraid	Q2
And bade them better mind their trade	Q2

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