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The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can. - William Wordsworth
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The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take, who have the power, And they should keep who can.
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About William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850) was a major English poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, launched the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 publication of Lyrical Ballads.
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