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a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey. William Wordsworth? Help please?

im looking for end punctuation. in Tintern Abbey. This is my instructions

"Look for the end punctuation and then indents that signal the end of one stanza and the beginning of the next"

Only need one more, I got four already.

For those who help and answer thank you very much. :)

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    Here's the whole poem complete with punctuation:-

    "Tintern Abbey"

    FIVE years have past; five summers, with the length

    Of five long winters! and again I hear

    These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs

    With a soft inland murmur. -- Once again

    Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,

    That on a wild secluded scene impress

    Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect

    The landscape with the quiet of the sky.

    The day is come when I again repose

    Here, under this dark sycamore, and view

    These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard-tufts,

    Which at this season, with their unripe fruits,

    Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves

    'Mid groves and copses. Once again I see

    These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines

    Of sportive wood run wild: these pastoral farms,

    Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke

    Sent up, in silence, from among the trees!

    With some uncertain notice, as might seem

    Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods,

    Or of some Hermit's cave, where by his fire

    The Hermit sits alone.

    These beauteous forms,

    Through a long absence, have not been to me

    As is a landscape to a blind man's eye:

    But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din

    Of towns and cities, I have owed to them

    In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,

    Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart;

    And passing even into my purer mind,

    With tranquil restoration: -- feelings too

    Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps,

    As have no slight or trivial influence

    On that best portion of a good man's life,

    His little, nameless, unremembered, acts

    Of kindness and of love. Nor less, I trust,

    To them I may have owed another gift,

    Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood,

    In which the burthen of the mystery,

    In which the heavy and the weary weight

    Of all this unintelligible world,

    Is lightened: -- that serene and blessed mood,

    In which the affections gently lead us on, --

    Until, the breath of this corporeal frame

    And even the motion of our human blood

    Almost suspended, we are laid asleep

    In body, and become a living soul:

    While with an eye made quiet by the power

    Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,

    We see into the life of things.

    If this

    Be but a vain belief, yet, oh! how oft --

    In darkness and amid the many shapes

    Of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir

    Unprofitable, and the fever of the world,

    Have hung upon the beatings of my heart --

    How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee,

    O sylvan Wye! thou wanderer thro' the woods,

    How often has my spirit turned to thee!

    And now, with gleams of half-extinguished thought,

    With many recognitions dim and faint,

    And somewhat of a sad perplexity,

    The picture of the mind revives again:

    While here I stand, not only with the sense

    Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts

    That in this moment there is life and food

    For future years. And so I dare to hope,

    Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first

    I came among these hills; when like a roe

    I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides

    Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams,

    Wherever nature led: more like a man

    Flying from something that he dreads, than one

    Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then

    (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days,

    And their glad animal movements all gone by)

    To me was all in all. -- I cannot paint

    What then I was. The sounding cataract

    Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock,

    The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,

    Their colours and their forms, were then to me

    An appetite; a feeling and a love,

    That had no need of a remoter charm,

    By thought supplied, nor any interest

    Unborrowed from the eye. -- That time is past,

    And all its aching joys are now no more,

    And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this

    Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur, other gifts

    Have followed; for such loss, I would believe,

    Abundant recompence. For I have learned

    To look on nature, not as in the hour

    Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes

    The still, sad music of humanity,

    Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power

    To chasten and subdue. And I have felt

    A presence that disturbs me with the joy

    Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime

    Of something far more deeply interfused,

    Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,

    And the round ocean and the living air,

    And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;

    A motion and a spirit, that impels

    All thinking things, all objects of all thought,

    And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still

    A lover of the meadows and the woods,

    And mountains; and of all that we behold

    From this green earth; of all the mighty world

    Of eye, and ear, -- both what they half create,

    And what perceive; well pleased to recognise

    In nature and the language of the sense,

    The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,

    The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul

    Of all my moral being.

    Nor perchance,

    If I were not thus taught, should I the more

    Suffer my genial spirits to decay:

    For thou art with me

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