Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PASTORAL: 3, by GEORGE MEREDITH


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First Line: Now standing on this hedgeside path
Last Line: And sings with wood and field.
Subject(s): Fields; Forests; Nature; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Woods


Now standing on this hedgeside path,
Up which the evening winds are blowing
Wildly from the lingering lines
Of sunset o'er the hills;
Unaided by one motive thought,
My spirit with a strange impulsion
Rises, like a fledgling,
Whose wings are not mature, but still
Supported by its strong desire
Beats up its native air and leaves
The tender mother's nest.

Great music under heaven is made,
And in the track of rushing darkness
Comes the solemn shape of night,
And broods above the earth.
A thing of Nature am I now,
Abroad, without a sense or feeling
Born not of her bosom;
Content with all her truths and fates;
Ev'n as yon strip of grass that bows
Above the new-born violet bloom,
And sings with wood and field.





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