. From low to high doth dissolution climb,
And sink from high to low, along a scale
Of awful notes, whose concord shall not fail;
A musical but melancholy chime,
Which they can hear who meddle not with crime,
Nor avarice, nor over-anxious care.
Truth fails not; but her outward forms that bear
The longest date do melt like frosty rime,
That in the morning whitened hill and plain
And is no more; drop like the tower sublime
Of yesterday, which royally did wear
His crown of weeds, but could not even sustain
Some casual shout that broke the silent air,
Or the unimaginable touch of Time.
NOTES
Form:
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Composition Date:
1821?
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This is from a series of 132 sonnets mostly written in 1821. "It struck me that
certain points in the Ecclesiastical History of our Country might advantageously be
presented to view in verse. Accordingly, I took up the subject, and what I now offer
to the reader was the result" (Wordsworth, with reference to the whole series). In
later editions these poems were known as Ecclesiastical Sonnets.
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