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1770–1850

TO THE DAISY

William Wordsworth

“Her divine skill taught me this, That from every thing I saw I could some instruction draw, And raise pleasure to the height

Through the meanest object's sight. By the murmur of a spring, Or the least bough's rustelling; By a Daisy whose leaves spread

Shut when Titan goes to bed; Or a shady bush or tree; She could more infuse in me Than all Nature's beauties can

In some other wiser man.”

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