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And children whirling in their roundabouts;
With those that stretch the neck and strain

eyes,

And crack the voice in rivalship, the crowd
Inviting; with buffoons against buffoons

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Grimacing, writhing, screaming, him who grinds
The hurdy-gurdy, at the fiddle weaves,

Rattles the salt-box, thumps the kettle-drum,
And him who at the trumpet puffs his cheeks,
The silver-collared Negro with his timbrel,
Equestrians, tumblers, women, girls, and boys,
Blue-breeched, pink-vested, with high-towering
plumes.

All movables of wonder, from all parts,

Are here, Albinos, painted Indians, Dwarfs,
The Horse of knowledge, and the Learned Pig,
The Stone-eater, the man that swallows fire,
Giants, Ventriloquists, the Invisible Girl,
The bust that speaks and moves its goggling eyes,
The Wax-work, Clock-work, all the marvellous craft
Of modern Merlins, Wild Beasts, Puppet-shows,
All out-o'-the-way, far-fetched, perverted things,
All freaks of nature, all Promethean thoughts
Of man, his dulness, madness, and their feats
All jumbled up together, to compose

A Parliament of Monsters. Tents and Booths
Meanwhile, as if the whole were one vast mill,
Are vomiting, receiving on all sides,

Men, Women, three-years' Children, Babes in

arms.

O blank confusion! true epitome
Of what the mighty City is herself,
To thousands upon thousands of her sons,
Living amid the same perpetual whirl
Of trivial objects, melted and reduced
To one identity, by differences

That have no law, no meaning, and no end,-
Oppression, under which even highest minds
Must labor, whence the strongest are not free.
But though the picture weary out the eye,
By nature an unmanageable sight,

It is not wholly so to him who looks

In steadiness, who hath among least things
An under-sense of greatest; sees the parts
As parts, but with a feeling of the whole.
This, of all acquisitions, first awaits

On sundry and most widely different modes
With education, nor with least delight

On that through which I passed. Attention springs,

And comprehensiveness and memory flow,
From early converse with the works of God
Among all regions; chiefly where appear
Most obviously simplicity and power.
Think, how the everlasting streams and woods,
Stretched and still stretching far and wide, exalt
The roving Indian, on his desert sands:
What grandeur not unfelt, what pregnant show
Of beauty, meets the sun-burnt Arab's eye:
And, as the sea propels, from zone to zone,

RETROSPECT.

- LOVE OF NATURE

LEADING TO LOVE OF MAN.

WHAT sounds are those, Helvellyn, that are heard

Up to thy summit, through the depth of air
Ascending, as if distance had the power

To make the sounds more audible? What crowd
Covers, or sprinkles o'er, yon village green?
Crowd seems it, solitary hill! to thee,
Though but a little family of men,

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Shepherds and tillers of the ground, betimes
Assembled with their children and their wives,
And here and there a stranger interspersed.
They hold a rustic fair, -

a festival,

Such as, on this side now, and now on that,
Repeated through his tributary vales,

Helvellyn, in the silence of his rest,

Sees annually, if clouds towards either ocean Blown from their favorite resting-place, or mists Dissolved, have left him an unshrouded head. Delightful day it is for all who dwell

To thee, and those domains of rural peace,
Where to the sense of beauty first my heart
Was opened; tract more exquisitely fair
Than that famed paradise of ten thousand trees,
Or Gehol's matchless gardens, for delight
Of the Tartarian dynasty composed
(Beyond that mighty wall, not fabulous,
China's stupendous mound) by, patient toil
Of myriads and boon Nature's lavish help;
There, in a clime from widest empire chosen,
Fulfilling (could enchantment have done more?)
A sumptuous dream of flowery lawns, with

domes

Of pleasure sprinkled over, shady dells
For Eastern monasteries, sunny mounts
With temples crested, bridges, gondolas,

Rocks, dens, and groves of foliage taught to melt
Into each other their obsequious hues,
Vanished and vanishing in subtle chase,
Too fine to be pursued; or standing forth
In no discordant opposition, strong
And gorgeous as the colors side by side
Bedded among rich plumes of tropic birds;
And mountains over all, embracing all;
And all the landscape, endlessly enriched
With waters running, falling, or asleep.

But lovelier far than this the paradise Where I was reared; in Nature's primitive gifts Favored no less, and more to every sense

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