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On Revisiting Dunolly Castle

By William Wordsworth

Topics: classic

The captive Bird was gone; to cliff or moor Perchance had flown, delivered by the storm; Or he had pined, and sunk to feed the worm: Him found we not: but, climbing, a tall tower, There saw, impaved with rude fidelity Of art mosaic, in a roofless floor, An Eagle with stretched wings, but beamless eye An Eagle that could neither wail nor soar. Effigy of the Vanished, (shall I dare To call thee so?) or symbol of fierce deeds And of the towering courage which past times Rejoiced in-take, whate'er thou be, a share, Not undeserved, of the memorial rhymes That animate my way where'er it leads!

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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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