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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 9. THE STEPPING STONES, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The struggling rill insensibly is grown
Last Line: Thinking how fast time runs, life's end how near!
First Line: The struggling rill insensibly is grown
Last Line: Thinking how fast time runs, life's end how near!
THE struggling Rill insensibly is grown
Into a Brook of loud and stately march,
Crossed ever and anon by plank or arch;
And, for like use, lo! what might seem a zone
Chosen for ornament -- stone matched with stone
In studied symmetry, with interspace
For the clear waters to pursue their race
Without restraint. How swiftly have they flown,
Succeeding -- still succeeding! Here the Child
Puts, when the high-swoln Flood runs fierce and wild,
His budding courage to the proof; and here
Declining Manhood learns to note the sly
And sure encroachments of infirmity,
Thinking how fast time runs, life's end how near!
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