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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DESPONDING FATHER! MARK THIS ALTERED BOUGH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
Last Line: To hope—in parents, sinful above all
Subject(s): Hope; Fathers; Children
Last Line: To hope—in parents, sinful above all
Subject(s): Hope; Fathers; Children
Desponding Father! mark this altered bough,
So beautiful of late, with sunshine warmed,
Or moist with dews; what more unsightly now,
Its blossoms shrivelled, and its fruit, if formed,
Invisible? yet Spring her genial brow
Knits not o'er that discolouring and decay
As false to expectation. Nor fret thou
At like unlovely process in the May
Of human life: a Stripling's graces blow,
Fade and are shed, that from their timely fall
(Misdeem it not a cankerous change) may grow
Rich mellow bearings, that for thanks shall call:
In all men, sinful is it to be slow
To hope''"in Parents, sinful above all.
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