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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 13. OPEN PROSPECT, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail to the fields - with dwellings sprinkled o'er
Last Line: At all the merry pranks of donnerdale!
First Line: Hail to the fields - with dwellings sprinkled o'er
Last Line: At all the merry pranks of donnerdale!
HAIL to the fields -- with Dwellings sprinkled o'er,
And one small hamlet, under a green hill
Clustering, with barn and byre, and spouting mill!
A glance suffices, -- should we wish for more,
Gay June would scorn us. But when bleak winds roar
Through the stiff lance-like shoots of pollard ash,
Dread swell of sound! loud as the gusts that lash
The matted forests of Ontario's shore
By wasteful steel unsmitten -- then would I
Turn into port; and, reckless of the gale,
Reckless of angry Duddon sweeping by,
While the warm hearth exalts the mantling ale,
Laugh with the generous household heartily
At all the merry pranks of Donnerdale!
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