Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth

Author:William Wordsworth
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780241303245
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2017-06-20T04:00:00+00:00

One summer-day I chanced to see

This old man doing all he could

About the root of an old tree,

A stump of rotten wood.

The mattock totter’d in his hand;

So vain was his endeavour

That at the root of the old tree

He might have worked for ever.

‘You’re overtasked, good Simon Lee,

Give me your tool’ to him I said;

And at the word right gladly he

Received my proffer’d aid.

I struck, and with a single blow

The tangled root I sever’d,

At which the poor old man so long

And vainly had endeavour’d.

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