The Factory At Night

(from "the excursion")

- "When soothing darkness spreads
O'er hill and vale," the Wanderer thus expressed
His recollections, "and the punctual stars,
While all things else are gathering to their homes,
Advance, and in the firmament of heaven
Glitter - but undisturbing, undisturbed;
As if their silent company were charged
With peaceful admonitions for the heart
Of all-beholding Man, earth's thoughtful lord;
Then, in full many a region, once like this
The assured domain of calm simplicity
And pensive quiet, an unnatural light
Prepared for never-resting Labour's eyes
Breaks from a many-windowed fabric huge;
And at the appointed hour a bell is heard,
Of harsher import than the curfew-knoll
That spake the Norman Conqueror's stern behest -
A local summons to unceasing toil!
Disgorged are now the ministers of day;
And, as they issue from the illumined pile,
A fresh band meets them, at the crowded door -
And in the courts - and where the rumbling stream,
That turns the multitude of dizzy wheels,
Glares, like a troubled spirit, in its bed
Among the rocks below. Men, maidens, youths,
Mother and little children, boys and girls,
Enter, and each the wonted task resumes
Within this temple, where is offered up
To Gain, the master idol of the realm,
Perpetual sacrifice." -

William Wordsworth . 1770-1850

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Poetry of Wordsworth

William Wordsworth
born 1770, died 1850

Poems

Though The Bold Wings Of Poesy Affect
If Thou Indeed Derive Thy Light From Heaven
Resolution And Independence
A Poet's Epitaph
Scorn Not The Sonnet
Remembrance Of Collins
At The Grave Of Burns
To The Sons Of Burns
Sonnet
The Manufacturing Spirit
The Factory At Night
The Working Classes
The God Of Love
She Was A Phantom Of Delight

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