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THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 32, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Not hurled precipitous from steep to steep
Last Line: With commerce freighted, or triumphant war.
First Line: Not hurled precipitous from steep to steep
Last Line: With commerce freighted, or triumphant war.
NOT hurled precipitous from steep to steep;
Lingering no more 'mid flower-enamelled lands
And blooming thickets; nor by rocky bands
Held; but in radiant progress toward the Deep
Where mightiest rivers into powerless sleep
Sink, and forget heir nature -- 'now' expands
Majestic Duddon, over smooth flat sands
Gliding in silence with unfettered sweep!
Beneath an ampler sky a region wide
Is opened round him: -- hamlets, towers, and towns,
And blue-topped hills, behold him from afar;
In stately mien to sovereign Thames allied
Spreading his bosom under Kentish downs,
With commerce freighted, or triumphant war.
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