May books and nature be their early joy!
WILLIAM WORDSWORTHBut thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.
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But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
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As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.
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All that we behold is full of blessings.
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Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar.
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By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.
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Great men have been among us; hands that penn’d and tongues that utter’d wisdom.
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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
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O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
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I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils Beside the lake beneath the trees Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
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The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.
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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
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A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer’s joy.
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In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.
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Memories -images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.
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