...she had made a pipe of straw, And music from that pipe could draw Like sounds of winds and Hoods ; Had built a bower upon the green, As if she from her...of the woods. Beneath her father's roof, alone She seem 'd to live ; her thoughts her own ; Herself her own delight : Pleased with herself, nor sad nor...

...And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own will Went wandering over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom, bold. And she had made a pipe of straw, And music from that pipe could draw Like sounds of winds and floods; Had built a bower upon the green,...

...thoughtless freedom, bold. And she had made a pipe of straw, And music from that pipe could draw Like u too and pray, And tell thy brother knights to fast and Pray ra As if she from her birth bad been An infant of the woods. Beneath her father's roof, alone She seemed...

...And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own will Went wandering over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom, bold. And she had made a pipe of straw, And music from that pipe could draw Like sounds of winds and floods ; Had built a bower upon the green,...

...And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own will Went wandering over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom, bold. And she had made a pipe of straw, And music from that pipe could draw Like sounds of winds and floods; Had built a bower upon the green,...

...And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own will Went wandering over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom, bold. And she had made a pipe of straw, ' And music from that pipe could draw Like sounds of winds and floods ; Had built a bower upon the green,...

...one might say, the "moving accident." From the beginning, Ruth is a child of the English countryside: And she had made a pipe of straw And from that oaten...she from her birth had been An Infant of the woods. [11.7-12] To this girl steeped in the natural comes "a Youth from Georgia's shore" (1. 13). He uses...

...(my italics) Went wandering over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom hold. Therefore she grew up As if she from her birth had been An infant of the woods. Although her "father's roof is mentioned, the poet asserts that she lived as much "alone" in thought...

...wanders over 'dale and hill/In thoughtless freedom, bold' (lines 5-6). A Rousseauesque native, she: Had built a bower upon the green, As if she from her birth had been An infant of the woods, (lines 10-12) In her harmonious relationship with the land, she is self possessed - 'Pleased with herself,...