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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COMPOSED NEAR CALAIS, ON THE ROAD LEADING TO ARDRES, 1802, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Jones! As from calais southward you and I
Last Line: Whose vernal coverts winter hath laid bare.
Variant Title(s): To A Friend, Composed Near Calais
First Line: Jones! As from calais southward you and I
Last Line: Whose vernal coverts winter hath laid bare.
Variant Title(s): To A Friend, Composed Near Calais
JONES! as from Calais southward you and I
Went pacing side by side, this public Way
Streamed with the pomp of a too-credulous day,
When faith was pledged to new-born Liberty:
A homeless sound of joy was in the sky:
From hour to hour the antiquated Earth
Beat like the heart of Man: songs, garlands, mirth,
Banners, and happy faces, far and nigh!
And now, sole register that these things were,
Two solitary greetings have I heard,
"Good-morrow, Citizen!" a hollow word,
As if a dead man spake it! Yet despair
Touches me not, though pensive as a bird
Whose vernal coverts winter hath laid bare.
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