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Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade
Of that which once was great, is passed away.

— William Wordsworth

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The light that never was, on sea or land,
The consecration, and the poet's dream.

Minds that have nothing to confer
Find little to perceive.

Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

All men feel something of an honorable bigotry for the objects which have long continued to please them.

Lyrical Ballads (1798)

— A simple child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?

Lyrical Ballads (1798)

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