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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341515" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Wordsworth At Dove Cottage</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wise Wordsworth, to avert your ken,<br>From half of human fate.<br>What is there in the ways of men,<br>Their struggles, or their state,<br>To make the calm recluse forswear<br>The garden path, the fire-side chair,<br>To journey with the Great?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The narrowest hamlet lends the heart<br>A realm as rich and wide<br>As kingdoms do, to play its part;<br>Who reaps not, that hath tried,<br>More rapture from the wayside flower<br>Than all the stairs and robes of power<br>And avenues of pride?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whether we scan it from below,<br>Or bask in it above,<br>We weary of life's glittering show;<br>We tire of all save Love.<br>As, when fatigued with wood-notes shrill,<br>We listen with contentment still<br>To cooings of the dove.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In this low cottage nested near<br>Mountain and lake, you dwelt;<br>'Twas here you tilled the ground, 'twas here<br>You loved, and wrote, and knelt.<br>Hence, wheresoe'er your kindred dwell,<br>Your songs sincere our hearts compel<br>To feel the thing you felt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Glory there is that lives entombed<br>In spacious-soaring shrine;<br>A tenement more narrow-roomed<br>Sufficient is for thine.<br>A homely temple haply found<br>Where peasants toil and streamlets sound,<br>Adorned not, but divine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Your sacred music still is heard,<br>When notes profane have died;<br>Like some familiar home-bred word,<br>You in our lives abide.<br>And when with trackless feet we rove<br>By meadow, mountain, mere, or grove,<br>We feel you at our side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thrice-happy bard! who found at home<br>All joys that needful be;<br>Whose longings were not forced to roam<br>Beyond your household Three:-<br>Your own proud genius, steadfast, calm,<br>A wife whose faith was household balm,<br>And heavenly Dorothy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What is it sweetens tasteless Fame?<br>Makes shadowy Glory bliss?<br>What is the guerdon poets claim?<br>What should it be but this?-<br>A heart attuned to understand,<br>A listening ear, a loving hand,<br>A smile, a tear, a kiss!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leave them but these, and let who will<br>Crave plaudits from the crowd,<br>Its vapid incense, aves shrill,<br>And favour of the proud.<br>The sweetest minister of Fame<br>Is she who broods upon one's name,<br>But calls it not aloud.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And this at least, in full, you had,<br>From sister, and from wife:<br>They made your gravest moments glad,<br>They havened you from strife;<br>Hallowed your verse, revered your tread,<br>Maintained a nimbus round your head,<br>And deified your life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hence, long as gentle brows shall bend<br>Over your rustic page,<br>Their pious love shall still befriend<br>The poet and the sage;<br>For, when we cross your cottage sill,<br>Virtue, no less than Genius, will<br>Invite the Pilgrimage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The tallest tower that ever rose<br>Hath but a span to soar;<br>Palace and fane are passing shows,<br>But Time will be no more,<br>When Wordsworth's home no longer leads<br>Men's far-off feet to Grasmere's meads,<br>And sanctifies its shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Austin">Alfred Austin</a><div class=q>
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From half of human fate.
What is there in the ways of men,
Their struggles, or their state,
To make the calm recluse forswear
The garden path, the fire-side chair,
To journey with the Great?

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