![]() ![]() Unborrowed from the eye.-That time is past,įaint I, nor mourn nor murmur other gifts Their colours and their forms, were then to me The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, For nature thenĪnd their glad animal movements all gone by) Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams,įlying from something that he dreads, than one I bounded o’er the mountains, by the sides ![]() Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first ![]() That in this moment there is life and food Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts While here I stand, not only with the sense O sylvan Wye! thou wanderer thro’ the woods,Īnd now, with gleams of half-extinguished thought, How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee, Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Of joyless daylight when the fretful stir While with an eye made quiet by the power Until, the breath of this corporeal frame In which the affections gently lead us on,. Is lightened:-that serene and blessed mood, Of aspect more sublime that blessed mood, On that best portion of a good man’s life, Of towns and cities, I have owed to them,įelt in the blood, and felt along the heart Through a long absence, have not been to meīut oft, in lonely rooms, and ‘mid the din Or of some Hermit’s cave, where by his fire Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods, With some uncertain notice, as might seem Sent up, in silence, from among the trees! Green to the very door and wreaths of smoke Of sportive wood run wild: these pastoral farms, These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines Which at this season, with their unripe fruits,Īre clad in one green hue, and lose themselves These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard-tufts, Thoughts of more deep seclusion and connect These waters, rolling from their mountain-springsĭo I behold these steep and lofty cliffs, Five years have past five summers, with the length ![]()
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