Written in March by William Wordsworth
b'Wordsworth read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\n Written in March\\nby William Wordsworth (1770 \\u2013 1850)\\n\\nThe Cock is crowing,\\nThe stream is flowing,\\nThe small birds twitter,\\nThe lake doth glitter\\n The green field sleeps in the sun;\\nThe oldest and youngest\\nAre at work with the strongest;\\nThe cattle are grazing,\\nTheir heads never raising;\\n There are forty feeding like one!\\n\\nLike an army defeated\\nThe snow hath retreated,\\nAnd now doth fare ill\\nOn the top of the bare hill;\\n The plowboy is whooping \\u2013 anon \\u2013 anon \\nThere\\u2019s joy in the mountains;\\nThere\\u2019s life in the fountains;\\nSmall clouds are sailing,\\nBlue sky prevailing;\\n The rain is over and gone!'