RESOLUTION AND INDEPENDENCE
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*TpHERE was a roaring in the wind all night;
•*" The rain came heavily and" fell in floods;
But now the sun is rising calm and bright;
The birds are singing in the distant wood;
Over his own sweet voice the Stock-dove broods; 5
The Jay makes answer as the Magpie chatters;
And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters.
II
All things that love the sun are out of doors;
^he sky rejoices in the morning's birth;
The grass is bright with rain-drops;—on the moors i0
The hare is running races in her mirth;
And with her feet she from the plashy earth
Raises a mist; that, glittering in the sun,
Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
Ill
I was a Traveller then upon the moor; 15
I saw the hare that raced about with joy;
I heard the woods and distant waters roar;
Or heard them not, as happy as a boy:
The pleasant season did my heart employ:
My old remembrances went from me wholly; 20
And all the ways of men, so vain and melancholy,
IV
But, as it sometimes chanceth, from the might
Of joy in minds that can no further go,
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