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On this day: October 21st
Random Poem of the Day
2Willows whose Trunks beside the shadows stood
3Of their own higher half, and willowy swamp:--
4Farmhouses that at anchor seem'd--in the inland sky
5The fog-transfixing Spires--
6Water, wide water, greenness and green banks,
7And water seen--
Notes
1] Written on a visit to the Continent with Wordsworth and his daughter, Dora; from Notebook 40 in which the lines are preceded by this comment: "Assuredly I have been seldom more agreeably disappointed than in this voyage per Steam-boat for the first two or three hours on the Maas." Back to Line