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""Beloved Vale!' I said, 'when I shall con

"How sweet it is, when mother Fancy rocks"

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"Those words were uttered as in pensive mood "

"With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the sky"

"The world is too much with us; late and soon "

"With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh"

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"Where lies the Land to which yon Ship must go?"

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"Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne "

Lines composed at Grasmere, during a walk one Even-

ing, after a stormy day, the Author having just read

in a Newspaper that the dissolution of Mr. Fox was

hourly expected

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November, 1806

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Address to a Child

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"Brook! whose society the Poet seeks"

"There is a little unpretending Rill"

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1807

To Lady Beaumont

A Prophecy. February, 1807

Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland

To Thomas Clarkson, on the final passing of the Bill for

the Abolition of the Slave Trade, March, 1807

The Mother's Return

Gipsies

"O Nightingale! thou surely art"

"Though narrow be that old Man's cares, and near

Composed by the side of Grasmere Lake. 1807

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