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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BELOVED VALE!' I SAID, 'WHEN I SHALL CON', by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet's Biography
Last Line: The weight of sadness was in wonder lost
Subject(s): Valleys; Childhood Memories
Last Line: The weight of sadness was in wonder lost
Subject(s): Valleys; Childhood Memories
"BELOVED Vale!" I said, "when I shall con
Those many records of my childish years,
Remembrance of myself and of my peers
Will press me down: to think of what is gone
Will be an awful thought, if life have one."
But, when into the Vale I came, no fears
Distressed me; from mine eyes escaped no tears;
Deep thought, or dread remembrance, had I none.
By doubts and thousand petty fancies crost
I stood, of simple shame the blushing Thrall; 10
So narrow seemed the brooks, the fields so small!
A Juggler's balls old Time about him tossed;
I looked, I stared, I smiled, I laughed; and all
The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.
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