English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 402. England and Switzerland |
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| | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
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| TWO voices are there, one is of the Sea, | |
| One of the Mountains, each a mighty voice: | |
| In both from age to age thou didst rejoice, | |
| They were thy chosen music, Liberty! | |
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| There came a tyrant, and with holy glee | 5 |
| Thou fought’st against him,—but hast vainly striven: | |
| Thou from thy Alpine holds at length art driven | |
| Where not a torrent murmurs heard by thee. | |
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| —Of one deep bliss thine ear hath been bereft; | |
| Then cleave, O cleave to that which still is left— | 10 |
| For high-soul’d Maid, what sorrow would it be | |
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| That Mountain floods should thunder as before, | |
| And Ocean bellow from his rocky shore, | |
| And neither awful Voice be heard by Thee! | |
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