Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf; Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself.
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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.William Wordsworth
More like a man; Flying from something that he dreads than one; Who sought the thing he loved.
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There is One great society alone on earth The noble living and the noble dead.
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I have submitted to a new control; A power is gone, which nothing can restore; A deep distress hath humanised my soul.
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. . . I would stand,If the night blackened with a coming storm,Beneath some rock, listening to notes that areThe ghostly language of the ancient earth,Or make their dim abode in distant winds.Thence did I drink the visionary powerAnd deem not profitless those fleeting moodsOf shadowy exultation not for this,That they are kindred to our purer mindAnd intellectual life but that the soul,Remembering how she felt, but what she feltRemembering not, retains an obscure senseOf possible sublimity. . . .
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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.
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