William Wordsworth: Lucy iv
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Lucy iv

1770-1850


THREE years she grew in sun and shower;
Then Nature said, 'A lovelier flower
         On earth was never sown;
This child I to myself will take;
She shall be mine, and I will make
         A lady of my own.

"Myself will to my darling be
Both law and impulse: and with me
         The girl, in rock and plain,
In earth and heaven, in glade and bower,
Shall feel an overseeing power
         To kindle or restrain.

'She shall be sportive as the fawn
That wild with glee across the lawn
         Or up the mountain springs;
And hers shall be the breathing balm,
And hers the silence and the calm
         Of mute insensate things.

'The floating clouds their state shall lend
To her; for her the willow bend;
         Nor shall she fail to see
Even in the motions of the storm
Grace that shall mould the maiden's form
         By silent sympathy.

'The stars of midnight shall be dear
To her; and she shall lean her ear
         In many a secret place
Where rivulets dance their wayward round,
And beauty born of murmuring sound
         Shall pass into her face.

'And vital feelings of delight
Shall rear her form to stately height,
         Her virgin bosom swell;
Such thoughts to Lucy I will give
While she and I together live
         Here in this happy dell.'

Thus Nature spake--The work was done--
How soon my Lucy's race was run!
         She died, and left to me
This heath, this calm, and quiet scene;
The memory of what has been,
         And never more will be.


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