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 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

A being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life and death; The rcabon firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and bkill; A perfect Woman, nobly plann'd, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light.

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��544 Daffodils

WANDER'D lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that bhine And twinkle on the Milky Way,

They strctch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they Out-did the spaiklmg waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company:

I gazed and gazed but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

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