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Memorials Of A Tour On The Continent, 1820 - IV. - After Visiting The Field Of Waterloo

By William Wordsworth

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A winged Goddess, clothed in vesture wrought Of rainbow colours; One whose port was bold, Whose overburthened hand could scarcely hold The glittering crowns and garlands which it brought Hovered in air above the far-famed Spot. She vanished; leaving prospect blank and cold Of wind-swept corn that wide around us rolled In dreary billows; wood, and meagre cot, And monuments that soon must disappear: Yet a dread local recompense we found; While glory seemed betrayed, while patriot-zeal Sank in our hearts, we felt as men 'should' feel With such vast hoards of hidden carnage near, And horror breathing from the silent ground!

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About William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (1770–1850) was an English Romantic poet who launched the movement with Samuel Taylor Coleridge in "Lyrical Ballads" (1798). His poems—including "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "Tintern Abbey"—championed nature, memory, and the language of common speech.

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