POETICAL WORKS

OF

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

WITH A MEMOIR

SEVEN VOLUMES IN THREE
VOL. I.

PRESENTED

NEW YORK

PUBLISHED BY HURD AND HOUGHTON
BOSTON: H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

The Riverside Press, Cambridge: Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company.

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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.