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WORDSWORTH AND THE MODERN SCHOOL
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Of far-off purple hills and mist-crowned mountains hoaryWordsworth dreamed.
His soul was one with clouds and golden sunsets' glory
As they gleamed.
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With mystic strength of soul and prophet's exaltationHe beheld
The glittering hosts of stars take up their nightly station,
God-impelled.
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Fair Nature was his Queen, and on her bosom ampleHe reposed.
He heard not Passion's steeds, whose fiery swift hoofs trample:
He disclosed
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The secrets of the hills, the secrets of the riversAnd the skies,—
Yet never felt the stroke that woman's soul delivers
Through her eyes.
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Ah! than the hills more fair, and than the rivers sweeterUnto me,
And tenderer than the pulse of silver-voiced soft metre
Of the sea,
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A woman's face and voice. Though hills and valleys bound meAnd the streams,
I'd push them all aside if once my true love crowned me
In her dreams.
March, 1884.
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