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William Wordsworth
Age: 80 †
Born: 1770
Born: April 7
Died: 1850
Died: April 23
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What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot!
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A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy.
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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry and these we adore Plain living and high thinking are no more.
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A deep distress has humanised my soul.
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The world is too much with us late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.
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And mighty poets in their misery dead.
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Before us lay a painful road, And guidance have I sought in duteous love From Wisdom's heavenly Father. Hence hath flowed Patience, with trust that, whatsoe'er the way Each takes in this high matter, all may move Cheered with the prospect of a brighter day.
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Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.
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Like thoughts whose very sweetness yielded proof that they were born for immortality.
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The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
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A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?
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Plain living and high thinking are no more.
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Far from the world I walk, and from all care.
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Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?
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Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.
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A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
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Because the good old rule Sufficeth them,-the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can.
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Give all thou canst high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.
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