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THE RIVER DUDDON: SONNET 24. THE RESTING PLACE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Mid-noon is past; - upon the sultry mead
Last Line: Loose idless to forego her wily mask.

MID-NOON is past; -- upon the sultry mead
No zephyr breathes, no cloud its shadow throws:
If we advance unstrengthened by repose,
Farewell the solace of the vagrant reed!
This Nook -- with woodbine hung and straggling weed
Tempting recess as ever pilgrim chose,
Half grot, half arbour -- proffers to enclose
Body and mind, from molestation freed,
In narrow compass -- narrow as itself:
Or if the Fancy, too industrious Elf,
Be loth that we should breathe awhile exempt
From new incitements friendly to our task,
Here wants not stealthy prospect, that may tempt
Loose Idless to forego her wily mask.

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