Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson
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By William Wordsworth & Alfred Tennyson 30 Oct, 2019
If from the public way you turn your steps   Up the tumultuous brook of Green-head Ghyll,   You will suppose that with an upright path   Your feet must struggle; in such bold ascent, The pastoral mountains front you, face to face.   But, courage! ... Read more
If from the public way you turn your steps   Up the tumultuous brook of Green-head Ghyll,   You will suppose that with an upright path   Your feet must struggle; in such bold ascent, The pastoral mountains front you, face to face.   But, courage! for around that boisterous brook   The mountains have all opened out themselves,   And made a hidden valley of their own.   No habitation can be seen; but they   Who journey thither find themselves alone 10   With a few sheep, with rocks and stones, and kites   That overhead are sailing in the sky.   It is in truth an utter solitude;   Nor should I have made mention of this Dell   But for one object which you might pass by, 15   Might see and notice not. Beside the brook   Appears a straggling heap of unhewn stones,   And to that simple object appertains Less
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