William Wordsworth Quotes on History
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O for a single hour of that Dundee, Who on that day the word of onset gave!
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Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee; And was the safeguard of the west: the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty.
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Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade Of that which once was great, is passed away.
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May no rude hand deface it, And its forlorn Hic jacet!
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Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!
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The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an Angel's wing.