Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Grasmere | | Lines | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | Written at Grasmere, on Tidings of the Approaching Death of Charles James Fox |
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LOUD is the Vale! the voice is up | |
| With which she speaks when storms are gone, | |
| A mighty unison of streams! | |
| Of all her voices, one! | |
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| Loud is the Vale! this inland depth | 5 |
| In peace is roaring like the sea; | |
| Yon star upon the mountain-top | |
| Is listening quietly. | |
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| Sad was I, even to pain deprest, | |
| Importunate and heavy load! | 10 |
| The Comforter hath found me here, | |
| Upon this lonely road; | |
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| And many thousands now are sad,— | |
| Wait the fulfilment of their fear; | |
| For he must die who is their stay, | 15 |
| Their glory disappear. | |
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| A power is passing from the earth | |
| To breathless Nature’s dark abyss; | |
| But when the great and good depart | |
| What is it more than this,— | 20 |
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| That man, who is from God sent forth, | |
| Doth yet again to God return? | |
| Such ebb and flow must ever be; | |
| Then wherefore should we mourn? | | | |
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