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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 11. THE FAIRY CHASM, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: No fiction was it of the antique age
Last Line: O'er twilight fields the autumnal gossamer?
First Line: No fiction was it of the antique age
Last Line: O'er twilight fields the autumnal gossamer?
NO fiction was it of the antique age:
A sky-blue stone, within this sunless cleft,
Is of the very footmarks unbereft
Which tiny Elves impressed; -- on that smooth stage
Dancing with all their brilliant equipage
In secret revels -- haply after theft
Of some sweet Babe -- Flower stolen, and coarse Weed left
For the distracted Mother to assuage
Her grief with, as she might! -- But, where, oh! where
Is traceable a vestige of the notes
That ruled those dances wild in character? --
Deep underground? Or in the upper air,
On the shrill wind of midnight? or where floats
O'er twilight fields the autumnal gossamer?
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