Picture of Daniel in the Lion's Den at Hamilton Palace

William Wordsworth 1770 (Wordsworth House) – 1850 (Cumberland)



Amid a fertile region green with wood
And fresh with rivers, well doth it become
The Ducal Owner, in his Palace-home
To naturalise this tawny Lion brood;
Children of Art, that claim strange brotherhood,
Couched in their Den, with those that roam at large
Over the burning wilderness, and charge
The wind with terror while they roar for food.
But
these
are satiate, and a stillness drear
Calls into life a more enduring fear;
Yet is the Prophet calm, nor would the cave
Daunt him - if his Companions, now bedrowsed
Yawning and listless, were by hunger roused:
Man placed him here, and God, he knows, can save.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDAEEDFGHHIAJI
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 602
Words 110
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16

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