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For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink Deep and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds

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To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil. 30
All strength all terror, single or in bands,
That ever was put forth in personal form
Jehovah with his thunder, and the choir
Of shouting angels, and the empyreal thrones
I pass them unalarmed. Not Chaos, not
The darkest pit of lowest Erebus,

Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out
By help of dreams can breed such fear and awe
As falls upon us often when we look
Into our minds, into the mind of Man-
My haunt, and the main region of my song.
- Beauty a living Presence of the earth,
Surpassing the most fair ideal forms

Which craft of delicate Spirits hath composed
From earth's materials - waits upon my steps;
Pitches her tents before me as I move,

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An hourly neighbour. Paradise, and groves
Elysian, Fortunate Fields like those of old
Sought in the Atlantic Main - why should they
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A history only of departed things,
Or a mere fiction of what never was?
For the discerning intellect of Man,
When wedded to this goodly universe
In love and holy passion, shall find these
A simple produce of the common day.

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- I, long before the blissful hour arrives, Would chant, in lonely peace, the spousal verse Of this great consummation: - and, by words Which speak of nothing more than what we are, Would I arouse the sensual from their sleep Of death, and win the vacant and the vain To noble raptures; while my voice proclaims How exquisitely the individual mind (And the progressive powers perhaps no less Of the whole species) to the external world Is fitted:- and how exquisitely, too Theme this but little heard of among men The external world is fitted to the mind; And the creation (by no lower name

Can it be called) which they with blended might

With star-like virtue in its place may shine, Shedding benignant influence, and secure Itself from all malevolent effect

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Thou bringest unto me a tale

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Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!

Alone she cuts and binds the grain
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.

No nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travellers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands:

A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In spring-time from the cuckoo-bird Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.

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On Yarrow's banks let herons feed, Hares couch, and rabbits burrow!

But we will downward with the Tweed, Nor turn aside to Yarrow.

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"There's Galla Water, Leader Haughs,

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Both lying right before us;

There's pleasant Tiviot-dale, a land

Made blithe with plough and harrow:

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Why throw away a needful day

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