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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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Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.

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The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun.

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I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

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We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.

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But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

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Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.

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my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion.

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But how can he expect that others should Build for him, sow for him, and at his call Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?

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She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.

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But to a higher mark than song can reach, Rose this pure eloquence.

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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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Departing summer hath assumed An aspect tenderly illumed, The gentlest look of spring; That calls from yonder leafy shade Unfaded, yet prepared to fade, A timely carolling.

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In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard seat And birds and flowers once more to greet. . . .

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As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!

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And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few.

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She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.

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The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.

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Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

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Beneath these fruit-tree boughs that shed Their snow-white blossoms on my head, With brightest sunshine round me spread Of spring's unclouded weather, In this sequestered nook how sweet To sit upon my orchard-seat! And birds and flowers once more to greet, My last year's friends together.

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