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Poems Of William Wordsworth: Ruth: Or The Influences Of Nature

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Wordsworth, William

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Ruth: Or The Influences Of Nature

When Ruth was left half desolate Her father took another mate; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own will Went wandering over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom bold.

And she had made a pipe of straw, And music from that pipe could draw Like sounds of wind and floods; Had built a bower upon the green, As if she from her birth had been An infant of the woods.

Beneath her father's roof, alone She seem'd to live; her thoughts her own; Herself her own delight: Pleased with herself, nor sad nor gay, She passed her time; and ...

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