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IN A CARRIAGE, UPON THE BANKS OF THE RHINE by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Poet Analysis

First Line: AMID THIS DANCE OF OBJECTS SADNESS STEALS
Last Line: AND IN FIT MEASURE CHEERS AUTUMNAL DAYS.
Subject(s): GERMANY; GERMANS;
AMID this dance of objects sadness steals
O'er the defrauded heart -- while sweeping by,
As in a fit of Thespian jollity,
Beneath her vine-leaf crown the green Earth reels:
Backward, in rapid evanescence, wheels
The venerable pageantry of Time,
Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime,
And what the Dell unwillingly reveals
Of lurking cloistral arch, through trees espied
Near the bright River's edge. Yet why repine?
To muse, to creep, to halt at will, to gaze --
Such sweet wayfaring -- of life's spring the pride,
Her summer's faithful joy -- 'that' still is mine,
And in fit measure cheers autumnal days.




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