...clothes. Wordsworth's Ruth, when not seven years old, went wandering "in thoughtless freedom bold," and Had built a bower upon the green, As if she from her birth had been An infant of the woods. So when the grown woman was deserted by her husband and she went mad, even in her prison cell she "nor...

...OR THE INFLUENCES OF NATURE WHEN Ruth was left half desolate Her father took another mate; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own will Went wandering over dale and hill, 5 In thoughtless freedom, bold. And she had made a pipe of straw, And music from that pipe could draw...

...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, 10 As if she from her birth had been An infant of the woods. Beneath her father's roof, alone She seem'd...

...thoughtless freedom, bold. 10 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, As if she from her birth had been 1 5 An infant of the woods. Beneath her father's roof, alone She seem'd to live ; her thoughts her...

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...gallop of verse "), as — When Ruth was left half desolate Her father took another mate ; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own...over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom bold. And again, both halves of such a stanza may further be resolved into four-syllabled leonines, as — With...

...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...

...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,...

...gallop of verse "), as — When Ruth was left half desolate Her father took another mate ; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own...over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom bold. And again, both halves of such a stanza may further be resolved into four-syllabled leonines, as — With...