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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN THE SOUND OF MULL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Tradition, be thou mute! Oblivion, throw
Last Line: "yon towering peaks, ""shepherds of etive glen?"
Subject(s): Violence
First Line: Tradition, be thou mute! Oblivion, throw
Last Line: "yon towering peaks, ""shepherds of etive glen?"
Subject(s): Violence
TRADITION, be thou mute! Oblivion, throw
Thy veil in mercy o'er the records, hung
Round strath and mountain, stamped by the ancient tongue
On rock and ruin darkening as we go, --
Spots where a word, ghostlike, survives to show
What crimes from hate, or desperate love, have sprung;
From honour misconceived, or fancied wrong,
What feuds, not quenched but fed by mutual woe.
Yet, though a wild vindictive Race, untamed
By civil arts and labours of the pen,
Could gentleness be scorned by those fierce Men,
Who, to spread wide the reverence they claimed
For patriarchal occupations, named
Yon towering Peaks, "Shepherds of Etive Glen?"
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