Most Sweet it is

By William Wordsworth

.  Most sweet it is with unuplifted eyes

   To pace the ground, if path be there or none,

   While a fair region round the traveller lies

   Which he forbears again to look upon;

   Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene,

   The work of Fancy, or some happy tone

   Of meditation, slipping in between

   The beauty coming and the beauty gone.

   If Thought and Love desert us, from that day

  Let us break off all commerce with the Muse:

  With Thought and Love companions of our way,

  Whate'er the senses take or may refuse,

  The Mind's internal heaven shall shed her dews

  Of inspiration on the humblest lay.

NOTESForm: sonnet: ababcbcbdedeffComposition Date:18331. The last of the series "Composed or suggested during a Tour, in the Summer of 1833."