The Prelude - Book Ninth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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RESIDENCE IN FRANCE	A
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Even as a river partly it might seem	B
Yielding to old remembrances and swayed	C
In part by fear to shape a way direct	D
That would engulph him soon in the ravenous sea	E
Turns and will measure back his course far back	F
Seeking the very regions which he crossed	G
In his first outset so have we my Friend	H
Turned and returned with intricate delay	I
Or as a traveller who has gained the brow	J
Of some aerial Down while there he halts	K
For breathing time is tempted to review	L
The region left behind him and if aught	H
Deserving notice have escaped regard	H
Or been regarded with too careless eye	M
Strives from that height with one and yet one more	N
Last look to make the best amends he may	I
So have we lingered Now we start afresh	O
With courage and new hope risen on our toil	P
Fair greetings to this shapeless eagerness	Q
Whene'er it comes needful in work so long	R
Thrice needful to the argument which now	J
Awaits us Oh how much unlike the past	H
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Free as a colt at pasture on the hill	S
I ranged at large through London's wide domain	T
Month after month Obscurely did I live	U
Not seeking frequent intercourse with men	V
By literature or elegance or rank	W
Distinguished Scarcely was a year thus spent	H
Ere I forsook the crowded solitude	H
With less regret for its luxurious pomp	X
And all the nicely guarded shows of art	H
Than for the humble book stalls in the streets	Y
Exposed to eye and hand where'er I turned	H
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France lured me forth the realm that I had crossed	H
So lately journeying toward the snow clad Alps	Z
But now relinquishing the scrip and staff	A2
And all enjoyment which the summer sun	B2
Sheds round the steps of those who meet the day	I
With motion constant as his own I went	H
Prepared to sojourn in a pleasant town	C2
Washed by the current of the stately Loire	D2
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Through Paris lay my readiest course and there	E2
Sojourning a few days I visited	H
In haste each spot of old or recent fame	F2
The latter chiefly from the field of Mars	G2
Down to the suburbs of St Antony	E
And from Mont Martre southward to the Dome	H2
Of Genevieve In both her clamorous Halls	I2
The National Synod and the Jacobins	I2
I saw the Revolutionary Power	J2
Toss like a ship at anchor rocked by storms	I2
The Arcades I traversed in the Palace huge	K2
Of Orleans coasted round and round the line	L2
Of Tavern Brothel Gaming house and Shop	M2
Great rendezvous of worst and best the walk	N2
Of all who had a purpose or had not	H
I stared and listened with a stranger's ears	I2
To Hawkers and Haranguers hubbub wild	H
And hissing Factionists with ardent eyes	I2
In knots or pairs or single Not a look	O2
Hope takes or Doubt or Fear is forced to wear	E2
But seemed there present and I scanned them all	P2
Watched every gesture uncontrollable	Q2
Of anger and vexation and despite	H
All side by side and struggling face to face	I2
With gaiety and dissolute idleness	I2
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Where silent zephyrs sported with the dust	H
Of the Bastille I sate in the open sun	B2
And from the rubbish gathered up a stone	R2
And pocketed the relic in the guise	I2
Of an enthusiast yet in honest truth	S2
I looked for something that I could not find	H
Affecting more emotion than I felt	H
For 'tis most certain that these various sights	I2
However potent their first shock with me	E
Appeared to recompense the traveller's pains	I2
Less than the painted Magdalene of Le Brun	B2
A beauty exquisitely wrought with hair	E2
Dishevelled gleaming eyes and rueful cheek	T2
Pale and bedropped with overflowing tears	I2
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But hence to my more permanent abode	H
I hasten there by novelties in speech	U2
Domestic manners customs gestures looks	I2
And all the attire of ordinary life	V2
Attention was engrossed and thus amused	H
I stood 'mid those concussions unconcerned	H
Tranquil almost and careless as a flower	J2
Glassed in a green house or a parlour shrub	W2
That spreads its leaves in unmolested peace	I2
While every bush and tree the country through	L
Is shaking to the roots indifference this	I2
Which may seem strange but I was unprepared	H
With needful knowledge had abruptly passed	H
Into a theatre whose stage was filled	H
And busy with an action far advanced	H
Like others I had skimmed and sometimes read	H
With care the master pamphlets of the day	I
Nor wanted such half insight as grew wild	H
Upon that meagre soil helped out by talk	N2
And public news but having never seen	X2
A chronicle that might suffice to show	Y2
Whence the main organs of the public power	J2
Had sprung their transmigrations when and how	J
Accomplished giving thus unto events	I2
A form and body all things were to me	E
Loose and disjointed and the affections left	H
Without a vital interest At that time	Z2
Moreover the first storm was overblown	R2
And the strong hand of outward violence	I2
Locked up in quiet For myself I fear	A3
Now in connection with so great a theme	B
To speak as I must be compelled to do	L
Of one so unimportant night by night	H
Did I frequent the formal haunts of men	V
Whom in the city privilege of birth	B3
Sequestered from the rest societies	I2
Polished in arts and in punctilio versed	H
Whence and from deeper causes all discourse	I2
Of good and evil of the time was shunned	H
With scrupulous care but these restrictions soon	C3
Proved tedious and I gradually withdrew	L
Into a noisier world and thus ere long	R
Became a patriot and my heart was all	P2
Given to the people and my love was theirs	I2
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A band of military Officers	I2
Then stationed in the city were the chief	D3
Of my associates some of these wore swords	I2
That had been seasoned in the wars and all	P2
Were men well born the chivalry of France	I2
In age and temper differing they had yet	H
One spirit ruling in each heart alike	E3
Save only one hereafter to be named	H
Were bent upon undoing what was done	B2
This was their rest and only hope therewith	B3
No fear had they of bad becoming worse	I2
For worst to them was come nor would have stirred	H
Or deemed it worth a moment's thought to stir	J2
In anything save only as the act	H
Looked thitherward One reckoning by years	I2
Was in the prime of manhood and erewhile	P2
He had sate lord in many tender hearts	I2
Though heedless of such honours now and changed	H
His temper was quite mastered by the times	I2
And they had blighted him had eaten away	I
The beauty of his person doing wrong	R
Alike to body and to mind his port	H
Which once had been erect and open now	J
Was stooping and contracted and a face	I2
Endowed by Nature with her fairest gifts	I2
Of symmetry and light and bloom expressed	H
As much as any that was ever seen	X2
A ravage out of season made by thoughts	I2
Unhealthy and vexatious With the hour	J2
That from the press of Paris duly brought	H
Its freight of public news the fever came	F2
A punctual visitant to shake this man	F3
Disarmed his voice and fanned his yellow cheek	T2
Into a thousand colours while he read	H
Or mused his sword was haunted by his touch	G3
Continually like an uneasy place	I2
In his own body 'Twas in truth an hour	J2
Of universal ferment mildest men	V
Were agitated and commotions strife	V2
Of passion and opinion filled the walls	I2
Of peaceful houses with unquiet sounds	I2
The soil of common life was at that time	Z2
Too hot to tread upon Oft said I then	V
And not then only What a mockery this	I2
Of history the past and that to come	H3
Now do I feel how all men are deceived	H
Reading of nations and their works in faith	B3
Faith given to vanity and emptiness	I2
Oh laughter for the page that would reflect	H
To future times the face of what now is	I2
The land all swarmed with passion like a plain	T
Devoured by locusts Carra Gorsas add	H
A hundred other names forgotten now	J
Nor to be heard of more yet they were powers	I2
Like earthquakes shocks repeated day by day	I
And felt through every nook of town and field	H
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Such was the state of things Meanwhile the chief	D3
Of my associates stood prepared for flight	H
To augment the band of emigrants in arms	I2
Upon the borders of the Rhine and leagued	H
With foreign foes mustered for instant war	N
This was their undisguised intent and they	I
Were waiting with the whole of their desires	I2
The moment to depart	H
An Englishman	B2
Born in a land whose very name appeared	H
To license some unruliness of mind	H
A stranger with youth's further privilege	I3
And the indulgence that a half learnt speech	U2
Wins from the courteous I who had been else	I2
Shunned and not tolerated freely lived	H
With these defenders of the Crown and talked	H
And heard their notions nor did they disdain	T
The wish to bring me over to their cause	I2
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But though untaught by thinking or by books	I2
To reason well of polity or law	P2
And nice distinctions then on every tongue	J3
Of natural rights and civil and to acts	I2
Of nations and their passing interests	I2
If with unworldly ends and aims compared	H
Almost indifferent even the historian's tale	P2
Prizing but little otherwise than I prized	H
Tales of the poets as it made the heart	H
Beat high and filled the fancy with fair forms	I2
Old heroes and their sufferings and their deeds	I2
Yet in the regal sceptre and the pomp	X
Of orders and degrees I nothing found	H
Then or had ever even in crudest youth	B3
That dazzled me but rather what I mourned	H
And ill could brook beholding that the best	H
Ruled not and feeling that they ought to rule	P2
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For born in a poor district and which yet	H
Retaineth more of ancient homeliness	I2
Than any other nook of English ground	H
It was my fortune scarcely to have seen	X2
Through the whole tenor of my school day time	Z2
The face of one who whether boy or man	F3
Was vested with attention or respect	H
Through claims of wealth or blood nor was it least	H
Of many benefits in later years	I2
Derived from academic institutes	I2
And rules that they held something up to view	L
Of a Republic where all stood thus far	K3
Upon equal ground that we were brothers all	P2
In honour as in one community	H
Scholars and gentlemen where furthermore	N
Distinction open lay to all that came	F2
And wealth and titles were in less esteem	B
Than talents worth and prosperous industry	H
Add unto this subservience from the first	H
To presences of God's mysterious power	J2
Made manifest in Nature's sovereignty	H
And fellowship with venerable books	I2
To sanction the proud workings of the soul	P2
And mountain liberty It could not be	H
But that one tutored thus should look with awe	L3
Upon the faculties of man receive	M3
Gladly the highest promises and hail	P2
As best the government of equal rights	I2
And individual worth And hence O Friend	H
If at the first great outbreak I rejoiced	H
Less than might well befit my youth the cause	I2
In part lay here that unto me the events	I2
Seemed nothing out of nature's certain course	I2
A gift that was come rather late than soon	C3
No wonder then if advocates like these	I2
Inflamed by passion blind with prejudice	I2
And stung with injury at this riper day	I
Were impotent to make my hopes put on	N3
The shape of theirs my understanding bend	H
In honour to their honour zeal which yet	H
Had slumbered now in opposition burst	H
Forth like a Polar summer every word	H
They uttered was a dart by counter winds	I2
Blown back upon themselves their reason seemed	H
Confusion stricken by a higher power	J2
Than human understanding their discourse	I2
Maimed spiritless and in their weakness strong	R
I triumphed	H
Meantime day by day the roads	I2
Were crowded with the bravest youth of France	I2
And all the promptest of her spirits linked	H
In gallant soldiership and posting on	N3
To meet the war upon her frontier bounds	I2
Yet at this very moment do tears start	H
Into mine eyes I do not say I weep	O3
I wept not then but tears have dimmed my sight	H
In memory of the farewells of that time	Z2
Domestic severings female fortitude	H
At dearest separation patriot love	P3
And self devotion and terrestrial hope	Q3
Encouraged with a martyr's confidence	I2
Even files of strangers merely seen but once	I2
And for a moment men from far with sound	H
Of music martial tunes and banners spread	H
Entering the city here and there a face	I2
Or person singled out among the rest	H
Yet still a stranger and beloved as such	G3
Even by these passing spectacles my heart	H
Was oftentimes uplifted and they seemed	H
Arguments sent from Heaven to prove the cause	I2
Good pure which no one could stand up against	H
Who was not lost abandoned selfish proud	H
Mean miserable wilfully depraved	H
Hater perverse of equity and truth	B3
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Among that band of Officers was one	B2
Already hinted at of other mould	H
A patriot thence rejected by the rest	H
And with an oriental loathing spurned	H
As of a different caste A meeker man	F3
Than this lived never nor a more benign	L2
Meek though enthusiastic Injuries	I2
Made 'him' more gracious and his nature then	V
Did breathe its sweetness out most sensibly	H
As aromatic flowers on Alpine turf	R3
When foot hath crushed them He through the events	I2
Of that great change wandered in perfect faith	B3
As through a book an old romance or tale	P2
Of Fairy or some dream of actions wrought	H
Behind the summer clouds By birth he ranked	H
With the most noble but unto the poor	S3
Among mankind he was in service bound	H
As by some tie invisible oaths professed	H
To a religious order Man he loved	H
As man and to the mean and the obscure	T3
And all the homely in their homely works	I2
Transferred a courtesy which had no air	E2
Of condescension but did rather seem	B
A passion and a gallantry like that	H
Which he a soldier in his idler day	I
Had paid to woman somewhat vain he was	I2
Or seemed so yet it was not vanity	H
But fondness and a kind of radiant joy	U3
Diffused around him while he was intent	H
On works of love or freedom or revolved	H
Complacently the progress of a cause	I2
Whereof he was a part yet this was meek	T2
And placid and took nothing from the man	F3
That was delightful Oft in solitude	H
With him did I discourse about the end	H
Of civil government and its wisest forms	I2
Of ancient loyalty and chartered rights	I2
Custom and habit novelty and change	V3
Of self respect and virtue in the few	L
For patrimonial honour set apart	H
And ignorance in the labouring multitude	H
For he to all intolerance indisposed	H
Balanced these contemplations in his mind	H
And I who at that time was scarcely dipped	H
Into the turmoil bore a sounder judgment	H
Than later days allowed carried about me	H
With less alloy to its integrity	H
The experience of past ages as through help	W3
Of books and common life it makes sure way	I
To youthful minds by objects over near	A3
Not pressed upon nor dazzled or misled	H
By struggling with the crowd for present ends	I2
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But though not deaf nor obstinate to find	H
Error without excuse upon the side	H
Of them who strove against us more delight	H
We took and let this freely be confessed	H
In painting to ourselves the miseries	I2
Of royal courts and that voluptuous life	V2
Unfeeling where the man who is of soul	P2
The meanest thrives the most where dignity	H
True personal dignity abideth not	H
A light a cruel and vain world cut off	X3
From the natural inlets of just sentiment	H
From lowly sympathy and chastening truth	B3
Where good and evil interchange their names	I2
And thirst for bloody spoils abroad is paired	H
With vice at home We added dearest themes	I2
Man and his noble nature as it is	I2
The gift which God has placed within his power	J2
His blind desires and steady faculties	I2
Capable of clear truth the one to break	Y3
Bondage the other to build liberty	H
On firm foundations making social life	V2
Through knowledge spreading and imperishable	P2
As just in regulation and as pure	T3
As individual in the wise and good	H
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We summoned up the honourable deeds	I2
Of ancient Story thought of each bright spot	H
That would be found in all recorded time	Z2
Of truth preserved and error passed away	I
Of single spirits that catch the flame from Heaven	B2
And how the multitudes of men will feed	H
And fan each other thought of sects how keen	X2
They are to put the appropriate nature on	N3
Triumphant over every obstacle	P2
Of custom language country love or hate	H
And what they do and suffer for their creed	H
How far they travel and how long endure	T3
How quickly mighty Nations have been formed	H
From least beginnings how together locked	H
By new opinions scattered tribes have made	H
One body spreading wide as clouds in heaven	B2
To aspirations then of our own minds	I2
Did we appeal and finally beheld	H
A living confirmation of the whole	P2
Before us in a people from the depth	B3
Of shameful imbecility uprisen	B2
Fresh as the morning star Elate we looked	H
Upon their virtues saw in rudest men	B2
Self sacrifice the firmest generous love	P3
And continence of mind and sense of right	H
Uppermost in the midst of fiercest strife	V2
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Oh sweet it is in academic groves	I2
Or such retirement Friend as we have known	B2
In the green dales beside our Rotha's stream	B
Greta or Derwent or some nameless rill	P2
To ruminate with interchange of talk	N2
On rational liberty and hope in man	B2
Justice and peace But far more sweet such toil	P2
Toil say I for it leads to thoughts abstruse	I2
If nature then be standing on the brink	Z3
Of some great trial and we hear the voice	I2
Of one devoted one whom circumstance	I2
Hath called upon to embody his deep sense	I2
In action give it outwardly a shape	A4
And that of benediction to the world	H
Then doubt is not and truth is more than truth	B3
A hope it is and a desire a creed	H
Of zeal by an authority Divine	B2
Sanctioned of danger difficulty or death	B3
Such conversation under Attic shades	I2
Did Dion hold with Plato ripened thus	I2
For a Deliverer's glorious task and such	G3
He on that ministry already bound	H
Held with Eudemus and Timonides	I2
Surrounded by adventurers in arms	I2
When those two vessels with their daring freight	H
For the Sicilian Tyrant's overthrow	Y2
Sailed from Zacynthus philosophic war	N
Led by Philosophers With harder fate	H
Though like ambition such was he O Friend	H
Of whom I speak So Beaupuis let the name	F2
Stand near the worthiest of Antiquity	H
Fashioned his life and many a long discourse	I2
With like persuasion honoured we maintained	H
He on his part accoutred for the worst	H
He perished fighting in supreme command	H
Upon the borders of the unhappy Loire	D2
For liberty against deluded men	B2
His fellow countrymen and yet most blessed	H
In this that he the fate of later times	I2
Lived not to see nor what we now behold	H
Who have as ardent hearts as he had then	B2
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Along that very Loire with festal mirth	B3
Resounding at all hours and innocent yet	H
Of civil slaughter was our frequent walk	N2
Or in wide forests of continuous shade	H
Lofty and over arched with open space	I2
Beneath the trees clear footing many a mile	P2
A solemn region Oft amid those haunts	I2
From earnest dialogues I slipped in thought	H
And let remembrance steal to other times	I2
When o'er those interwoven roots moss clad	H
And smooth as marble or a waveless sea	H
Some Hermit from his cell forth strayed might pace	I2
In sylvan meditation undisturbed	H
As on the pavement of a Gothic church	B4
Walks a lone Monk when service hath expired	H
In peace and silence But if e'er was heard	H
Heard though unseen a devious traveller	J2
Retiring or approaching from afar	K3
With speed and echoes loud of trampling hoofs	I2
From the hard floor reverberated then	B2
It was Angelica thundering through the woods	I2
Upon her palfrey or that gentle maid	H
Erminia fugitive as fair as she	H
Sometimes methought I saw a pair of knights	I2
Joust underneath the trees that as in storm	C4
Rocked high above their heads anon the din	B2
Of boisterous merriment and music's roar	N
In sudden proclamation burst from haunt	H
Of Satyrs in some viewless glade with dance	I2
Rejoicing o'er a female in the midst	H
A mortal beauty their unhappy thrall	P2
The width of those huge forests unto me	H
A novel scene did often in this way	I
Master my fancy while I wandered on	B2
With that revered companion And sometimes	I2
When to a convent in a meadow green	B2
By a brook side we came a roofless pile	P2
And not by reverential touch of Time	Z2
Dismantled but by violence abrupt	H
In spite of those heart bracing colloquies	I2
In spite of real fervour and of that	H
Less genuine and wrought up within myself	D4
I could not but bewail a wrong so harsh	E4
And for the Matin bell to sound no more	N
Grieved and the twilight taper and the cross	I2
High on the topmost pinnacle a sign	B2
How welcome to the weary traveller's eyes	I2
Of hospitality and peaceful rest	H
And when the partner of those varied walks	I2
Pointed upon occasion to the site	H
Of Romorentin home of ancient kings	I2
To the imperial edifice of Blois	I2
Or to that rural castle name now slipped	H
From my remembrance where a lady lodged	H
By the first Francis wooed and bound to him	F4
In chains of mutual passion from the tower	J2
As a tradition of the country tells	I2
Practised to commune with her royal knight	H
By cressets and love beacons intercourse	I2
'Twixt her high seated residence and his	I2
Far off at Chambord on the plain beneath	B3
Even here though less than with the peaceful house	I2
Religious 'mid those frequent monuments	I2
Of Kings their vices and their better deeds	I2
Imagination potent to inflame	F2
At times with virtuous wrath and noble scorn	B2
Did also often mitigate the force	I2
Of civic prejudice the bigotry	H
So call it of a youthful patriot's mind	H
And on these spots with many gleams I looked	H
Of chivalrous delight Yet not the less	I2
Hatred of absolute rule where will of one	B2
Is law for all and of that barren pride	H
In them who by immunities unjust	H
Between the sovereign and the people stand	H
His helper and not theirs laid stronger hold	H
Daily upon me mixed with pity too	H
And love for where hope is there love will be	H
For the abject multitude And when we chanced	H
One day to meet a hunger bitten girl	P2
Who crept along fitting her languid gait	H
Unto a heifer's motion by a cord	H
Tied to her arm and picking thus from the lane	B2
Its sustenance while the girl with pallid hands	I2
Was busy knitting in a heartless mood	H
Of solitude and at the sight my friend	H
In agitation said 'Tis against 'that'	H
That we are fighting I with him believed	H
That a benignant spirit was abroad	H
Which might not be withstood that poverty	H
Abject as this would in a little time	Z2
Be found no more that we should see the earth	B3
Unthwarted in her wish to recompense	I2
The meek the lowly patient child of toil	P2
All institutes for ever blotted out	H
That legalised exclusion empty pomp	X
Abolished sensual state and cruel power	J2
Whether by edict of the one or few	H
And finally as sum and crown of all	P2
Should see the people having a strong hand	H
In framing their own laws whence better days	I2
To all mankind But these things set apart	H
Was not this single confidence enough	G4
To animate the mind that ever turned	H
A thought to human welfare That henceforth	B3
Captivity by mandate without law	P2
Should cease and open accusation lead	H
To sentence in the hearing of the world	H
And open punishment if not the air	E2
Be free to breathe in and the heart of man	B2
Dread nothing From this height I shall not stoop	H4
To humbler matter that detained us oft	H
In thought or conversation public acts	I2
And public persons and emotions wrought	H
Within the breast as ever varying winds	I2
Of record or report swept over us	I2
But I might here instead repeat a tale	P2
Told by my Patriot friend of sad events	I2
That prove to what low depth had struck the roots	I2
How widely spread the boughs of that old tree	H
Which as a deadly mischief and a foul	P2
And black dishonour France was weary of	P3
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Oh happy time of youthful lovers thus	I2
The story might begin oh balmy time	Z2
In which a love knot on a lady's brow	J
Is fairer than the fairest star in Heaven	B2
So might and with that prelude 'did' begin	B2
The record and in faithful verse was given	B2
The doleful sequel	P2
But our little bark	I4
On a strong river boldly hath been launched	H
And from the driving current should we turn	B2
To loiter wilfully within a creek	T2
Howe'er attractive Fellow voyager	J2
Would'st thou not chide Yet deem not my pains lost	H
For Vaudracour and Julia so were named	H
The ill fated pair in that plain tale will draw	P2
Tears from the hearts of others when their own	B2
Shall beat no more Thou also there may'st read	H
At leisure how the enamoured youth was driven	B2
By public power abased to fatal crime	Z2
Nature's rebellion against monstrous law	P2
How between heart and heart oppression thrust	H
Her mandates severing whom true love had joined	H
Harassing both until he sank and pressed	H
The couch his fate had made for him supine	B2
Save when the stings of viperous remorse	I2
Trying their strength enforced him to start up	J4
Aghast and prayerless Into a deep wood	H
He fled to shun the haunts of human kind	H
There dwelt weakened in spirit more and more	N
Nor could the voice of Freedom which through France	I2
Full speedily resounded public hope	Q3
Or personal memory of his own worst wrongs	I2
Rouse him but hidden in those gloomy shades	I2
His days he wasted an imbecile mind	H

William Wordsworth

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