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Rural Architecture
(William Wordsworth)

There's George Fisher, Charles Fleming, and Reginald Shore,
Three rosy-cheeked school-boys, the highest not more
Than the height of a counsellor's bag;
To the top of GREAT HOW did it please them to climb:
And there they built up, without mortar or lime,
A Man on the peak of the crag.

They built him of stones gathered up as they lay:
They built him and christened him all in one day,
An urchin both vigorous and hale;
And so without scruple they called him Ralph Jones.
Now Ralph is renowned for the length of his bones;
The Magog of Legberthwaite dale.

Just half a week after, the wind sallied forth,
And, in anger or merriment, out of the north,
Coming on with a terrible pother,
From the peak of the crag blew the giant away.
And what did these school-boys?--The very next day
They went and they built up another.

--Some little I've seen of blind boisterous works
By Christian disturbers more savage than Turks,
Spirits busy to do and undo:
At remembrance whereof my blood sometimes will flag;
Then, light-hearted Boys, to the top of the crag!
And I'll build up giant with you.


Poems/ Poetry / Quotations by William Wordsworth
 A Whirl-blast From Behind The Hill | A Wren's Nest | Andrew Jones | Animal Tranquillity And Decay | Brothers, The | Calm Is All Nature As A Resting Wheel. | Complaint Of A Forsaken Indian Woman, The | Danish Boy, The: A Fragment | Elegiac Stanzas | England, 1802 ii | England, 1802 iii | England, 1802 V | "She Was a Phantom of Delight" | "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" | "Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower," | A Complaint | A Poet's Epitaph | Dion | Foresight | Forsaken, The | Fountain, The: A Conversation | Green Linnet, The | Hart-Leap Well | I Travelled Among Unknown Men | Idle Shepherd Boys, The | Inside of King's College Chapel, Cambridge | It Is a Beauteous Evening | It was an April morning: fresh and clear | Kitten And Falling Leaves, The | Last of The Flock, The | Lines Left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree | Lucy ii | Lucy iv | Lucy v | Michael: A Pastoral Poem | Mother's Return, The | November, 1806 | O Nightingale! Thou Surely Art | Old Cumberland Beggar, The | Rainbow, The | Sailor's Mother, The | She Was a Phantom of Delight | Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman | Simplon Pass, The | Speak! | Stepping Westward | Thorn, The | Three Years She Grew | There was a Boy | World Is Too Much With Us, The | Virgin, The | Trosachs, The | To A Butterfly (first poem) | To A Sexton | To a Skylark | To Joanna | To The Cuckoo | To The Daisy (first poem) | To The Daisy (fourth poem) | To The Same Flower (second poem) | Upon Westminster Bridge | Waterfall and The Eglantine, The | Yarrow Revisited |


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