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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IONA. UPON LANDING, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: How sad a welcome! To each voyager
Last Line: "shall gild their passage to eternal rest."
Subject(s): Iona, Scotland
First Line: How sad a welcome! To each voyager
Last Line: "shall gild their passage to eternal rest."
Subject(s): Iona, Scotland
HOW sad a welcome! To each voyager
Some ragged child holds up for sale a store
Of wave-worn pebbles, pleading on the shore
Where once came monk and nun with gentle stir,
Blessings to give, news ask, or suit prefer.
Yet is yon neat trim church a grateful speck
Of novelty amid the sacred wreck
Strewn far and wide. Think, proud Philosopher!
Fallen though she be, this Glory of the west,
Still on her sons, the beams of mercy shine;
And "hopes, perhaps more heavenly bright than thine,
A grace by thee unsought and unpossest,
A faith more fixed, a rapture more divine,
Shall gild their passage to eternal rest."
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