WORDSWORTH AT GRASMERE

By John Drinkwater

These hills and waters fostered you

Abiding in your argument

Until all comely wisdom drew

About you, and the years were spent.

Now over hill and water stays

A world more intimately wise,

Built of your dedicated days,

And seen in your beholding eyes.

So, marvellous and far, the mind,

That slept among them when began

Waters and hills, leaps up to find

Its kingdom in the thought of man.