William Wordsworth

England
7 Apr 1770 // 23 Apr 1850
Poet

Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee!
...

Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart:
So didst thou travel on life's common way
In cheerful godliness.
.

London, 1802


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