Resolution and Independence

William Wordsworth

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Published: 1807, in Poems in Two Volumes, volume 1
Length: 21 lines, 180 words, 1 word in 26 is long
Year band: Reading load: Years 3–4. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: rain, sun, wind
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

There was a roaring in the wind all night;The rain came heavily and fell in floods;But now the sun is rising calm and bright;The birds are singing in the distant woods;Over his own sweet voice the Stock-dove broods;The Jay makes answer as the Magpie chatters;And all the air is fill'd with pleasant noise of waters.

All things that love the sun are out of doors;The sky rejoices in the morning's birth;The grass is bright with rain-drops; on the moorsThe Hare is running races in her mirth;And with her feet she from the plashy earthRaises a mist; which, glittering in the sun,Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.

I was a Traveller then upon the moor;I saw the Hare that rac'd about with joy;I heard the woods, and distant waters, roar;Or heard them not, as happy as a Boy:The pleasant season did my heart employ:My old remembrances went from me wholly;And all the ways of men, so vain and melancholy.

William Wordsworth (died 1850), Poems in Two Volumes, volume 1 (1807), lines 1652–1674 of Project Gutenberg ebook #8774. Public domain in Australia: the author died before 1955. Copied word for word and checked against the ebook.

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