Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson by Alfred Lord Tennyson;William Wordsworth
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4. A WANDERING VOICE? Lacking substantial existence. 6. TWOFOLD SHOUT. Twofold, because consisting of a double note. Compare Wordsworth's sonnet, _To the Cuckoo_, l. 4: "With its twin notes inseparably paired." Wordsworth employs the word "shout" in several of his Cuckoo descriptions. See _The Excursion_, ii. l. 346-348 and vii. l. 408; also the following from _Yes! it was the Mountain Echo_: Yes! it was the mountain echo, Solitary, clear, profound, Answering to the shouting Cuckoo; Giving to her sound for sound. NUTTING ------It seems a day (I speak of one from many singled out), One of those heavenly days that cannot die; When, in the eagerness of boyish hope, I left our cottage threshold, sallying forth 5 With a huge wallet o'er my shoulders slung, A nutting-crook in hand, and turned my steps Toward some far-distant wood, a Figure quaint, |
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