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THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH,

D. C. L., POET LAUREATE, ETC., ETC.

VOLUME I.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY.

MDCCCLXIV.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON.

IF thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven,
Then, to the measure of that heaven-born light,
Shine, Poet! in thy place, and be content:
The stars pre-eminent in magnitude,

And they that from the zenith dart their beams,

(Visible though they be to half the earth,

Though half a sphere be conscious of their brightness,)

Are yet of no diviner origin,

No purer essence, than the one that burns,

Like an untended watch-fire, on the ridge

Of some dark mountain; or than those which seem
Humbly to hang, like twinkling winter lamps,
Among the branches of the leafless trees;
All are the undying offspring of one Sire:
Then, to the measure of the light vouchsafed,
Shine, Poet! in thy place, and be content.

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