The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to… - William Wordsworth

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The child is father of the man:
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.

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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Love betters what is best

Men who can hear the Decalogue, and feel To self-reproach.

Sweet is the lore which nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Misshapes the beauteous forms of things — We murder to dissect.

The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. - William Wordsworth

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