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1770–1850

SUGGESTED AT TYNDRUM IN A STORM

William Wordsworth

Enough of garlands, of the Arcadian crook, And all that Greece and Italy have sung Of Swains reposing myrtle groves among! Ours couch on naked rocks,— will cross a brook

Swoln with chill rains, nor ever cast a look This way or that, or give it even a thought More than by smoothest pathway may be brought Into a vacant mind. Can written book

Teach what they learn? Up, hardy Mountaineer! And guide the Bard, ambitious to be One Of Nature's privy council, as thou art, On cloud-sequestered heights, that see and hear

To what dread PowersHe delegates his part On earth, who works in the heaven of heavens, alone.

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