Those steps I mounted, as the vapours gave 1837.
... while the vapours gave 1838.
Those steps I clomb; the opening vapours gave C. and 1840.
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Composed at Grasmere, during a walk one Evening, after a stormy day, the Author having just read in a Newspaper that the dissolution of Mr. Fox was hourly expected.
Composed September 1806.—Published 1807
This poem was ranked among the "Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces."—Ed.
Loud is the Vale! the Voice is up
With which she speaks when storms are gone,
A mighty unison of streams!
Of all her Voices, One!
Loud is the Vale;—this inland Depth 5
In peace is roaring like the Sea;
Yon star upon the mountain-top
Is listening quietly.