In Cornwall and Across the Sea With Poems Written in Devonshire. By Douglas B. W. Sladen |
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WORDSWORTH'S “TWO VOICES.”
[Written at Waverley, Geelong, Victoria.]
“Two voices are there: one is of the sea
One of the mountains:” so the Poet sung,
Who lived the hills of Cumberland among,
And gave their names, O Liberty, to thee,
But they have a significance for me
Sweeter than liberty, less steeped in wrong,—
Home—for I too in days when I was young,
Lived on those Cumbrian hills.
One of the mountains:” so the Poet sung,
Who lived the hills of Cumberland among,
And gave their names, O Liberty, to thee,
But they have a significance for me
Sweeter than liberty, less steeped in wrong,—
Home—for I too in days when I was young,
Lived on those Cumbrian hills.
And, though there be
Five thousand leagues of sea between us set,
Oft as the peaks of distant hills I've scanned,
I've dreamed of Easdale's mountain-coronet,
And when upon the ocean's brink I stand,
I see in it a chain of blue and foam,
To link me, long drawn out, with my old home.
Five thousand leagues of sea between us set,
Oft as the peaks of distant hills I've scanned,
I've dreamed of Easdale's mountain-coronet,
And when upon the ocean's brink I stand,
I see in it a chain of blue and foam,
To link me, long drawn out, with my old home.
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