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 Poetry

“When furious up from mines the water pours” [“The Steam Engine”]
 poem I
 o The hunt by day
 Theyg r
when furious up from mines the water pours

 Ths
and clears fr
om rusty moisture all the ores

 
then may
cloud
 e
s gather then may
thunder[roar

 the
then m
ay
 n 
the li
ghtnings
flash and
rainmay pour [sigh 1

 t
yet
undisturbed the power alone will raise
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the
water from the engine might nowbe formed a phrase

when as it drags the weight of fragmentlarge
it also drags the weight of smokey barge
called by us steam boat and a steamboat saves
the beings scattered on the furious
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[waves

by boilers bursting but a steamboat[can
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be the most useful engine brought[to man
the grinding stones that by its forceare whi
l
r
led

and by their force the yellow grains[are twirled
Bruised ground and thrown away
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in boxes small

While it doth thunder near the[echoing wall
The whirring wheels arranged in[whirling rows
And on the wheels the spinner
ws
cotton
[ throws

Next moves the noisy beam thewheels do whirl
And next the wheels the cotton
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|fibres twirl 2

The moving bellows that are made|to roar
By its huge strength that meltthe red hot ore
The copper mines that by it|emptied are
nd their blue metal now isbrought from far
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then it puts forth its power
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e
 
the rollers
squeeze

the metal then another part
The regretted ghost
 
doth seize

the flattened metal quickAnd flies the circle round
And all is stamped at onceBrittannia and the groun
d

then showers the waterfrom the reser
w
vo
ir

and round the town it rush
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ing now doth pour

then runs to cisterns largeand fills them all
and turns back homewardin quanti
nty
ty
but small 3

then forms the lengthening chainand putting link to link
makes a small chain and
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 leaves of that flower the pink

 and so I end
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“On Scotland”
 poem IIon scotland
 O what a change frompretty perth so near
to dreary heather and to
 
streams so clear

to rocks and stones upon the
dreary way
dreary way

no sun is shining as on sprigsprightly may
again it changes to the
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winding ern 4

tis shallow water but it has
i
n
o fern

but it is precious for its
 
shining
pearls
drops

and
tis a river that has
sometimes from the
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 river a fish pops

 again it changes to a steepsteep hill
 and it is cold do any thi
g
n
g
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you will

in short such changesscotland does
m
no
w take

that I canʼt tell them an
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d I
quickly end 5

“The Defiance of War”
 poem III
 The defiatllnce of warwoe

 War war thou art beating thy[drum
 but we wish thee not to come
 we like better our peaceful home
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 you like better than us to come
 but weʼll conquer in spite of thee
 you like better a king to be
 than us to conquer but shall not he
 the strongest of us the conqueror be
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s
Y
es yes he shall be so

 thy army shall to us cry oh
 we will make thy army know
 whats a warrior and whats a doe
 fly fly make thy army fly
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 else thy army here shall die
 thy army here shall mercy cry
 or else they here shall suffering die
“The Needless Alarm”
 The needless alarm poem IIII
 the needless alarm

 
am
Am
ong the rushes lived a mouse

with a pretty little house
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made of rushes tall and high
that to the skies were heard to|sigh a
while one night while she was|sleeping b
comes a dog that then was peeping
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and had found her out in spite
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of her good wall for thenhis sight
was better than our mousesso
she was obliged to yield tofoe
when frightened was thedog just then
at the scratching of a hen
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so of he ran and little mous
e

was left in safety withher house
Margaret Ruskin's Gloss on the Dating of MS I

Jany 1826
 This book begun about Sept. or Oct 1826finished about Jany 1827
"On Papa's Leaving Home"

poem IIIIV
on papas leaveeing home

Papas leaving home was a moment[of sorrow c

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 because he was not to comeback to‐morrow
 but we thought that the w
o
h
ole
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was a travel and now

 he might come back in days 6 with the ladies that bow
 The ladies that bow are the pictures andpresents
 and we thought that we mighthave a peep at the peasants
 so we cheered our
 se
sel
ves upwith the hope of the days

 when papa might come back
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again show us the ways

 and
d
p
lease him and pleasehim till all was so well

 that from joy to his sorrowhe never has fell.
"On the Rainbow: In Blank Verse"

poem V
 on the ra
poem VI
on the rainbow
in blank verse
 

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 The rainbows beautiesare my joy.
 in rains where rainbows are the be/
,
d

and shoot
s
t
hose rays of light to me/
,
e
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whe
n 
re
all the beauties of them are,

and those that see them all
r
 r
eflect. f g

and those that have the colours best,
show me those rays of light that all
reflect upon. And h all that know
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about the rainbow will reflectthose rays
of light that come towards themalways are
The ornament of all the sky
but those that do
n
 n
ot i know about that light

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 reflect not on it. and in all that light
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 not one of
all
j the colours do they know

 but all that see it justly think upon
 The maker of it  k justly is not he
 best of the rainbows
 b
.B
ut what lightis that

 which to us from that god does flow.
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 all of the men that from that godsee light
 Will say. what light is this
 brown is the rainbow whencompared with this
 and all the men that see it all reflect
 upon The  l beauties of the rainbow
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