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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHATSWORTH! THY STATELY MANSION, AND THE PRIDE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
Last Line: The extremes of favoured life, may honour both
Subject(s): Country Life
Last Line: The extremes of favoured life, may honour both
Subject(s): Country Life
Chatsworth! thy stately mansion, and the pride
Of thy domain, strange contrast do present
To house and home in many a craggy rent
Of the wild Peak; where new-born waters glide
Through fields whose thrifty occupants abide
As in a dear and chosen banishment,
With every semblance of entire content;
So kind is simple Nature, fairly tried!
Yet He whose heart in childhood gave her troth
To pastoral dales, thin-set with modest farms,
May learn, if judgement strengthen with his growth,
That, not for Fancy only, pomp hath charms;
And, strenuous to protect from lawless harms
The extremes of favoured life, may honour both.
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