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"Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower,"
(William Wordsworth)

Three years she grew in sun and shower,
Then Nature said, "A lovelier flower
On earth was never sown;
This Child I to myself will take;
She shall be mine, and I will make
A Lady of my own.

"Myself will to my darling be
Both law and impulse: and with me
The Girl, in rock and plain
In earth and heaven, in glade and bower,
Shall feel an overseeing power
To kindle or restrain.

"She shall be sportive as the fawn
That wild with glee across the lawn
Or up the mountain springs;
And her's shall be the breathing balm,
And her's the silence and the calm
Of mute insensate things.

"The floating clouds their state shall lend
To her; for her the willow bend;
Nor shall she fail to see
Even in the motions of the Storm
Grace that shall mold the Maiden's form
By silent sympathy.

"The stars of midnight shall be dear
To her; and she shall lean her ear
In many a secret place
Where rivulets dance their wayward round,
And beauty born of murmuring sound
Shall pass into her face.

"And vital feelings of delight
Shall rear her form to stately height,
Her virgin bosom swell;
Such thoughts to Lucy I will give
While she and I together live
Here in this happy dell."

Thus Nature spake---The work was done---
How soon my Lucy's race was run!
She died, and left to me
This heath, this calm, and quiet scene;
The memory of what has been,
And never more will be.


Poems/ Poetry / Quotations by William Wordsworth
 An Evening Walk, Addressed To A Young Lady | Birth Of Love, The | Childless Father, The | Composed During a Storm | England, 1802 I | "She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways" | "Surprised by Joy--Impatient as the Wind" | "'Tis Said, That Some Have Died For Love" | "With Ships the Sea was Sprinkled Far and Nigh," | A Night-Piece | A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal | Daffodils | Evening on Calais Beach | Expostulation and Reply | Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg | For The Spot Where The Hermitage Stood on St. Herbert's Island, Derwentwater. | Her Eyes are Wild | I Know an Old Man Constrained to Dwell | Inscriptions Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone | Lament Of Mary Queen Of Scots | Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey | Lines Written In Early Spring | Lucy i | Lucy iii | Most Sweet it is | Mother's Return, The | My Heart Leaps Up | Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room | Oak and The Broom, The: A Pastoral Poem | Ode to Duty | Perfect Woman | Resolution and Independence | Scorn Not the Sonnet | She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways | Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman | Simplon Pass, The | Sparrow's Nest, The | Stanzas | Surprised by Joy | French Revolution as it appeared to Enthusiasts, The | Power of Armies Is a Visible Thing, The | Primrose of the Rock, The | Two April Mornings, The | Sun Has Long Been Set, The | To M.H. | To The Daisy (third poem) | Upon Westminster Bridge | Valedictory Sonnet to the River Duddon | Written in London. September, 1802 |


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