To a Friend, composed near Calais, on the Road leading to Ardres, August 7th, 1802

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To a Friend, composed near Calais, on the Road leading to Ardres, August 7th, 1802

Jones! when from Calais southward you and I
Travell'd on foot together; then this Way,
Which I am pacing now, was like the May
With festivals of new-born Liberty:
A homeless sound of joy was in the Sky;
The antiquated Earth, as one might say,
Beat like the heart of Man: songs, garlands, play,
Banners, and happy faces, far and nigh!
And now, sole register that these things were,
Two solitary greetings have I heard,
"_Good morrow, Citizen_!" a hollow word,
As if a dead Man spake it! Yet despair
I feel not: happy am I as a Bird:
Fair seasons yet will come, and hopes as fair.

Content of To a Friend, composed near Calais, on the Road leading to Ardres, August 7th, 1802 [William Wordsworth's poems: Part The Second - Sonnets Dedicated To Liberty]

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