Extract from the Prelude

Question 1

One summer evening (led by her) I found

Answer 1

A little boat tied to a willow tree

Question 2

It was an act of stealth

Answer 2

And troubled pleasure

Question 3

Small circles glittering idly in the moon,

Answer 3

Until they melted all into one track

Of sparkling light

Question 4

lustily

Answer 4

I dipped my oars into the silent lake,

Question 5

my boat

Answer 5

Went heaving through the water like a swan;

Question 6

a huge peak, black and huge,

Answer 6

As if with voluntary power instinct,

Upreared its head.

Question 7

I struck and struck again,

Answer 7

And growing still in stature the grim shape

Question 8

With trembling oars I turned,

Answer 8

And through the silent water stole my way

Back to the covert of the willow tree;

Question 9

o’er my thoughts

Answer 9

There hung a darkness

Question 10

No familiar shapes

Remained

Answer 10

no pleasant images of trees,