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Poems Of William Wordsworth: Fountain, The

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Wordsworth, William

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Fountain, The

A Conversation

We talk'd with open heart, and tongue Affectionate and true, A pair of friends, though I was young, And Matthew seventy - two.

We lay beneath a spreading oak, Beside a mossy seat; And from the turf a fountain broke And gurgled at our feet.

'Now, Matthew!' said I, 'let us match This water's pleasant tune With some old border - song, or catch That suits a summer's noon.

'Or of the church - clock and the chimes Sing here beneath the shade That half - mad thing of witty rhymes Which you last April made!'

In silence Matthew lay, and eyed The spring ...

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