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THUS they with freaks of proud delight	A
Beguile the remnant of the night	A
And many a snatch of jovial song	B
Regales them as they wind along	B
While to the music from on high	C
The echoes make a glad reply	C
But the sage Muse the revel heeds	D
No farther than her story needs	D
Nor will she servilely attend	E
The loitering journey to its end	E
Blithe spirits of her own impel	F
The Muse who scents the morning air	G
To take of this transported pair	G
A brief and unreproved farewell	F
To quit the slow paced waggon's side	H
And wander down yon hawthorn dell	F
With murmuring Greta for her guide	H
There doth she ken the awful form	I
Of Raven crag black as a storm	I
Glimmering through the twilight pale	J
And Ghimmer crag his tall twin brother	K
Each peering forth to meet the other	K
And while she roves through St John's Vale	J
Along the smooth unpathwayed plain	L
By sheep track or through cottage lane	L
Where no disturbance comes to intrude	M
Upon the pensive solitude	M
Her unsuspecting eye perchance	N
With the rude shepherd's favoured glance	N
Beholds the faeries in array	O
Whose party coloured garments gay	O
The silent company betray	O
Red green and blue a moment's sight	A
For Skiddaw top with rosy light	A
Is touched and all the band take flight	A
Fly also Muse and from the dell	F
Mount to the ridge of Nathdale Fell	F
Thence look thou forth o'er wood and lawn	P
Hoar with the frost like dews of dawn	P
Across yon meadowy bottom look	Q
Where close fogs hide their parent brook	Q
And see beyond that hamlet small	R
The ruined towers of Threlkeld hall	R
Lurking in a double shade	S
By trees and lingering twilight made	S
There at Blencathara's rugged feet	T
Sir Lancelot gave a safe retreat	T
To noble Clifford from annoy	U
Concealed the persecuted boy	U
Well pleased in rustic garb to feed	V
His flock and pipe on shepherd's reed	V
Among this multitude of hills	W
Crags woodlands waterfalls and rills	W
Which soon the morning shall enfold	X
From east to west in ample vest	Y
Of massy gloom and radiance bold	X
The mists that o'er the streamlet's bed	Z
Hung low begin to rise and spread	Z
Even while I speak their skirts of grey	O
Are smitten by a silver ray	O
And lo up Castrigg's naked steep	A2
Where smoothly urged the vapours sweep	A2
Along and scatter and divide	H
Like fleecy clouds self multiplied	H
The stately waggon is ascending	B2
With faithful Benjamin attending	B2
Apparent now beside his team	C2
Now lost amid a glittering steam	C2
And with him goes his Sailor friend	E
By this time near their journey's end	E
And after their high minded riot	D2
Sickening into thoughtful quiet	D2
As if the morning's pleasant hour	K
Had for their joys a killing power	K
And sooth for Benjamin a vein	L
Is opened of still deeper pain	L
As if his heart by notes were stung	E2
From out the lowly hedge rows flung	E2
As if the Warbler lost in light	A
Reproved his soarings of the night	A
In strains of rapture pure and holy	F2
Upbraided his distempered folly	F2
Drooping is he his step is dull	G2
But the horses stretch and pull	H2
With increasing vigour climb	I2
Eager to repair lost time	I2
Whether by their own desert	J2
Knowing what cause there is for shame	K2
They are labouring to avert	J2
As much as may be of the blame	K2
Which they foresee must soon alight	A
Upon 'his' head whom in despite	A
Of all his failings they love best	Y
Whether for him they are distrest	Y
Or by length of fasting roused	Y
Are impatient to be housed	Y
Up against the hill they strain	L
Tugging at the iron chain	L
Tugging all with might and main	L
Last and foremost every horse	W
To the utmost of his force	W
And the smoke and respiration	L2
Rising like an exhalation	L2
Blend with the mist a moving shroud	Y
To form an undissolving cloud	Y
Which with slant ray the merry sun	L2
Takes delight to play upon	M2
Never golden haired Apollo	N2
Pleased some favourite chief to follow	N2
Through accidents of peace or war	O2
In a perilous moment threw	P2
Around the object of his care	G
Veil of such celestial hue	P2
Interposed so bright a screen	Q2
Him and his enemies between	Q2
Alas what boots it who can hide	Y
When the malicious Fates are bent	Y
On working out an ill intent	Y
Can destiny be turned aside	Y
No sad progress of my story	F2
Benjamin this outward glory	F2
Cannot shield thee from thy Master	K
Who from Keswick has pricked forth	R2
Sour and surly as the north	R2
And in fear of some disaster	K
Comes to give what help he may	O
And to hear what thou canst say	O
If as needs he must forebode	Y
Thou hast been loitering on the road	Y
His fears his doubts may now take flight	Y
The wished for object is in sight	Y
Yet trust the Muse it rather hath	S2
Stirred him up to livelier wrath	S2
Which he stifles moody man	T2
With all the patience that he can	T2
To the end that at your meeting	B2
He may give thee decent greeting	B2
There he is resolved to stop	U2
Till the waggon gains the top	U2
But stop he cannot must advance	W
Him Benjamin with lucky glance	W
Espies and instantly is ready	F2
Self collected poised and steady	F2
And to be the better seen	Q2
Issues from his radiant shroud	Y
From his close attending cloud	Y
With careless air and open mien	Q2
Erect his port and firm his going	B2
So struts yon cock that now is crowing	B2
And the morning light in grace	W
Strikes upon his lifted face	W
Hurrying the pallid hue away	O
That might his trespasses betray	O
But what can all avail to clear him	V2
Or what need of explanation	L2
Parley or interrogation	L2
For the Master sees alas	W
That unhappy Figure near him	V2
Limping o'er the dewy grass	W
Where the road it fringes sweet	Y
Soft and cool to way worn feet	Y
And O indignity an Ass	W
By his noble Mastiff's side	Y
Tethered to the waggon's tail	J
And the ship in all her pride	Y
Following after in full sail	J
Not to speak of babe and mother	K
Who contented with each other	K
And snug as birds in leafy arbour	K
Find within a blessed harbour	K
With eager eyes the Master pries	W
Looks in and out and through and through	P2
Says nothing till at last he spies	W
A wound upon the Mastiff's head	Y
A wound where plainly might be read	Y
What feats an Ass's hoof can do	P2
But drop the rest this aggravation	L2
This complicated provocation	L2
A hoard of grievances unsealed	Y
All past forgiveness it repealed	Y
And thus and through distempered blood	Y
On both sides Benjamin the good	Y
The patient and the tender hearted	Y
Was from his team and waggon parted	Y
When duty of that day was o'er	K
Laid down his whip and served no more	O2
Nor could the waggon long survive	W2
Which Benjamin had ceased to drive	W2
It lingered on guide after guide	Y
Ambitiously the office tried	Y
But each unmanageable hill	X2
Called for 'his' patience and 'his' skill	X2
And sure it is that through this night	Y
And what the morning brought to light	Y
Two losses had we to sustain	L
We lost both WAGGONER and WAIN	L
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Accept O Friend for praise or blame	K2
The gift of this adventurous song	B
A record which I dared to frame	K2
Though timid scruples checked me long	B
They checked me and I left the theme	C2
Untouched in spite of many a gleam	C2
Of fancy which thereon was shed	Y
Like pleasant sunbeams shifting still	X2
Upon the side of a distant hill	X2
But Nature might not be gainsaid	Y
For what I have and what I miss	W
I sing of these it makes my bliss	W
Nor is it I who play the part	Y
But a shy spirit in my heart	Y
That comes and goes will sometimes leap	A2
From hiding places ten years deep	A2
Or haunts me with familiar face	W
Returning like a ghost unlaid	Y
Until the debt I owe be paid	Y
Forgive me then for I had been	Y2
On friendly terms with this Machine	Q2
In him while he was wont to trace	W
Our roads through many a long year's space	W
A living almanack had we	F2
We had a speaking diary	F2
That in this uneventful place	W
Gave to the days a mark and name	K2
By which we knew them when they came	K2
Yes I and all about me here	Z2
Through all the changes of the year	A3
Had seen him through the mountains go	N2
In pomp of	B3