<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369395" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>After 'A Narrow Girdle of Rough Stones and Crags</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In company of quite different take<br>The poet went out dawdling<br>Down by Grasmere Lake.<br>Dead calm the lake, no wind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With no Joanna to mock<br>At the base of the rock, <br>All three flew fancy free, <br>William and Dorothy, STC, <br>Idled in the land of Poesy: <br>Osmunda fern became a Naiad Queen, <br>A fisherman miraged ahead<br>Was Freedom at his leisure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when up close, their fancies fled, <br>Self-reproach replaced their pleasure.<br>The fisherman was sick and gaunt, <br>Freedom just a taunt, <br>Dead the lake, no care.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">POINT RASH-JUDGEMENT's what<br>They named the spot.<br>Had I put in my tuppence<br>The point might be COMEUPPANCE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(STC is Samuel Taylor Coleridge<br> Dorothy is Wordsworth's sister) <br>This poem follows on from 'After 'To Joanna''</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Douglas+Scotney">Douglas Scotney</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=369395" data-title="After 'A Narrow Girdle of Rough Stones and Crags de Douglas Scotney" data-description="In company of quite different take The poet went out dawdling Down by Grasmere Lake. Dead calm the lake, no wind. With no Joanna to mock At the base of the rock, All three flew fancy free, William and Dorothy, STC, Idled in the land of Poesy: ..."></div> </div> </div>

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