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“ALONG THE MAZES OF THIS SONG I GO”

This, and the next two fragments, by Wordsworth, are extracted from his sister’s Grasmere Journal.—Ed.

Along the mazes of this song I go

As inward motions of the wandering thought

Lead me, or outward circumstance impels.

Thus do I urge a never-ending way

Year after year, with many a sleep between,

Through joy and sorrow; if my lot be joy