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Keep for the Young the impassioned smile	A
Shed from thy countenance as I see thee stand	B
High on that chalky cliff of Britain's Isle	A
A slender volume grasping in thy hand	B
Perchance the pages that relate	C
The various turns of Crusoe's fate	C
Ah spare the exulting smile	A
And drop thy pointing finger bright	D
As the first flash of beacon light	D
But neither veil thy head in shadows dim	E
Nor turn thy face away	F
From One who in the evening of his day	F
To thee would offer no presumptuous hymn	E
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I	-
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Bold Spirit who art free to rove	G
Among the starry courts of Jove	G
And oft in splendour dost appear	H
Embodied to poetic eyes	I
While traversing this nether sphere	H
Where Mortals call thee Enterprise	I
Daughter of Hope her favourite Child	J
Whom she to young Ambition bore	K
When hunter's arrow first defiled	J
The grove and stained the turf with gore	K
Thee winged Fancy took and nursed	J
On broad Euphrates' palmy shore	K
And where the mightier Waters burst	J
From caves of Indian mountains hoar	K
She wrapped thee in a panther's skin	L
And Thou thy favourite food to win	L
The flame eyed eagle oft wouldst scare	M
From her rock fortress in mid air	M
With infant shout and often sweep	N
Paired with the ostrich o'er the plain	O
Or tired with sport wouldst sink asleep	N
Upon the couchant lion's mane	O
With rolling years thy strength increased	J
And far beyond thy native East	J
To thee by varying titles known	P
As variously thy power was shown	P
Did incense bearing altars rise	I
Which caught the blaze of sacrifice	Q
From suppliants panting for the skies	I
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II	-
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What though this ancient Earth be trod	J
No more by step of Demi god	J
Mounting from glorious deed to deed	J
As thou from clime to clime didst lead	J
Yet still the bosom beating high	G
And the hushed farewell of an eye	G
Where no procrastinating gaze	R
A last infirmity betrays	R
Prove that thy heaven descended sway	F
Shall ne'er submit to cold decay	F
By thy divinity impelled	J
The Stripling seeks the tented field	J
The aspiring Virgin kneels and pale	S
With awe receives the hallowed veil	S
A soft and tender Heroine	T
Vowed to severer discipline	T
Inflamed by thee the blooming Boy	U
Makes of the whistling shrouds a toy	U
And of the ocean's dismal breast	J
A play ground or a couch of rest	J
'Mid the blank world of snow and ice	Q
Thou to his dangers dost enchain	T
The Chamois chaser awed in vain	T
By chasm or dizzy precipice	V
And hast Thou not with triumph seen	T
How soaring Mortals glide between	T
Or through the clouds and brave the light	J
With bolder than Icarian flight	J
How they in bells of crystal dive	G
Where winds and waters cease to strive	G
For no unholy visitings	V
Among the monsters of the Deep	N
And all the sad and precious things	V
Which there in ghastly silence sleep	N
Or adverse tides and currents headed	J
And breathless calms no longer dreaded	J
In never slackening voyage go	W
Straight as an arrow from the bow	X
And slighting sails and scorning oars	V
Keep faith with Time on distant shores	V
Within our fearless reach are placed	J
The secrets of the burning Waste	J
Egyptian tombs unlock their dead	J
Nile trembles at his fountain head	J
Thou speak'st and lo the polar Seas	V
Unbosom their last mysteries	V
But oh what transports what sublime reward	J
Won from the world of mind dost thou prepare	M
For philosophic Sage or high souled Bard	J
Who for thy service trained in lonely woods	V
Hath fed on pageants floating through the air	M
Or calentured in depth of limpid floods	V
Nor grieves tho' doomed thro' silent night to bear	M
The domination of his glorious themes	V
Or struggle in the net work of thy dreams	V
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If there be movements in the Patriot's soul	Y
From source still deeper and of higher worth	Z
'Tis thine the quickening impulse to control	Y
And in due season send the mandate forth	A2
Thy call a prostrate Nation can restore	K
When but a single Mind resolves to crouch no more	K
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IV	G
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Dread Minister of wrath	B2
Who to their destined punishment dost urge	C2
The Pharaohs of the earth the men of hardened heart	J
Not unassisted by the flattering stars	V
Thou strew'st temptation o'er the path	B2
When they in pomp depart	J
With trampling horses and refulgent cars	V
Soon to be swallowed by the briny surge	C2
Or cast for lingering death on unknown strands	V
Or caught amid a whirl of desert sands	V
An Army now and now a living hill	D2
That a brief while heaves with convulsive throes	V
Then all is still	D2
Or to forget their madness and their woes	V
Wrapt in a winding sheet of spotless snows	V
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V	G
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Back flows the willing current of my Song	E2
If to provoke such doom the Impious dare	M
Why should it daunt a blameless prayer	M
Bold Goddess range our Youth among	F2
Nor let thy genuine impulse fail to beat	J
In hearts no longer young	F2
Still may a veteran Few have pride	J
In thoughts whose sternness makes them sweet	J
In fixed resolves by Reason justified	J
That to their object cleave like sleet	J
Whitening a pine tree's northern side	J
When fields are naked far and wide	J
And withered leaves from earth's cold breast	J
Up caught in whirlwinds nowhere can find rest	J
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VI	G
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But if such homage thou disdain	T
As doth with mellowing years agree	G
One rarely absent from thy train	T
More humble favours may obtain	T
For thy contented Votary	G
She who incites the frolic lambs	V
In presence of their heedless dams	V
And to the solitary fawn	T
Vouchsafes her lessons bounteous Nymph	G
That wakes the breeze the sparkling lymph	G
Doth hurry to the lawn	T
She who inspires that strain of joyance holy	G
Which the sweet Bird misnamed the melancholy	G
Pours forth in shady groves shall plead for me	G
And vernal mornings opening bright	J
With views of undefined delight	J
And cheerful songs and suns that shine	T
On busy days with thankful nights be mine	T
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VII	G
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But thou O Goddess in thy favourite Isle	A
Freedom's impregnable redoubt	J
The wide earth's store house fenced about	J
With breakers roaring to the gales	V
That stretch a thousand thousand sails	V
Quicken the slothful and exalt the vile	A
Thy impulse is the life of Fame	G2
Glad Hope would almost cease to be	G
If torn from thy society	G
And Love when worthiest of his name	G2
Is proud to walk the earth with Thee	G

William Wordsworth

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