From the sweet thoughts of home And from all hope I was for… - William Wordsworth

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From the sweet thoughts of home And from all hope I was forever hurled. For me—farthest from earthly port to roam Was best, could I but shun the spot where man might come.

William Wordsworth

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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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Also Known As: Bard of Rydal Mount

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Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man …

Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

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