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Do not export or print from this database without checking the Copyright Conditions to see what is permitted.  \nBibliographic details for the Source Text  \nWordsworth, William, 1770-1850 (1770-1850)  \nThe Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind; An Autobiographical Poem; By William Wordsworth  \nLondon  \nEdward Moxon 1850  \nviii, 374 p.  \nPreliminaries and introductory matter omitted including preface  \nVolume  \n[Page iii]  \nWordsworth, William, 1770-1850: THE PRELUDE,  \nOR GROWTH OF A POET'S MIND;  \n[http://collections.chadwyck.com/ep2/fulltext?ACTION=BYID&ID=Z000543876&WARN... 2/25/2004](http://collections.chadwyck.com/ep2/fulltext?ACTION=BYID&ID=Z000543876&WARN... 2/25/2004)  \nEnglish Poetry, Full Text Page 2 of 184  \nAN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL POEM; [from The Prelude (1850)]  \n[Page 1]  \nBOOK I. INTRODUCTION---CHILDHOOD AND SCHOOL-TIME.  \n[Page 3]  \n1 O there is blessing in this gentle breeze, 2 A visitant that while it fans my cheek  \n3 Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings  \n4 From the green fields, and from yon azure sky.  \n5 Whate'er its mission, the soft breeze can come  \n6 To none more grateful than to me; escaped  \n7 From the vast city, where I long had pined  \n8 A discontented sojourner: now free, 9 Free as a bird to settle where I will.  \n10 What dwelling shall receive me? in what vale  \n11 Shall be my harbour? underneath what grove  \n12 Shall I take up my home? and what clear stream  \n13 Shall with its murmur lull me into rest?  \n14 The earth is all before me. With a heart  \n15 Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty,  \n[Page 4]  \n16 I look about; and should the chosen guide  \n17 Be nothing better than a wandering cloud, 18 I cannot miss my way. I breathe again!  \n19 Trances of thought and mountings ofthe mind  \n20 Come fast upon me: it is shaken off, 21 That burthen of my own unnatural self, 22 The heavy weight of many a weary day  \n23 Not mine, and such as were not made for me.  \n24 Long months of peace (if such bold word accord 25 With any promises of human life),  \n26 Long months of ease and undisturbed delight  \n27 Are mine in prospect; whither shall I turn, 28 By road or pathway, or through trackless field, 29 Up hill or down, or shall some floating thing  \n30 Upon the river point me out my course?  \n31 Dear Liberty! Yet what would it avail  \n32 But for a gift that consecrates the joy?  \n[http://collections.chadwyck.com/ep2/fulltext?ACTION=BYID&ID=Z000543876&WARN... 2/25/2004](http://collections.chadwyck.com/ep2/fulltext?ACTION=BYID&ID=Z000543876&WARN... 2/25/2004)  \nEnglish Poetry, Full Text Page 3 of 184  \n33 For I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven  \n34 Was blowing on my body, felt within  \n35 A correspondent breeze, that gently moved  \n36 With quickening virtue, but is now become  \n37 A tempest, a redundant energy,  \n38 Vexing its own creation. 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