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Poems Of William Wordsworth: Affliction Of Margaret, The

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

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Affliction Of Margaret, The

Where art thou, my beloved Son, Where art thou, worse to me than dead! O find me, prosperous or undone! Or if the grave be now thy bed, Why am I ignorant of the same That I may rest; and neither blame Nor sorrow may attend thy name?

Seven years, alas! to have received No tidings of an only child - To have despair'd, have hoped, believed, And been for evermore beguiled, - Sometimes with thoughts of very bliss! I catch at them, and then I miss; Was ever darkness like to this?

He was among the prime in worth, An object beauteous to behold; Well born, ...

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