Yes, It Was The Mountain Echo
William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)
YES, it was the mountain Echo,
Solitary, clear, profound,
Answering to the shouting Cuckoo,
Giving to her sound for sound!
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To a babbling wanderer sent;
Like her ordinary cry,
Like--but oh, how different!
Hears not also mortal Life?
Hear not we, unthinking Creatures!
Slaves of folly, love, or strife--
Voices of two different natures?
Have not 'we' too?--yes, we have
Answers, and we know not whence;
Echoes from beyond the grave,
Recognised intelligence!
Such rebounds our inward ear
Catches sometimes from afar--
Listen, ponder, hold them dear;
For of God,--of God they are.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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Scheme | XAXA BXBX CDCD XXXX XEXE |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 584 |
Words | 99 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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