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Poems Of William Wordsworth: Lucy

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

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Lucy

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Strange fits of passion have I known: And I will dare to tell, But in the lover's ear alone, What once to me befell.

When she I loved look'd every day Fresh as a rose in June, I to her cottage bent my way, Beneath an evening moon.

Upon the moon I fix'd my eye, All over the wide lea; With quickening pace my horse drew nigh Those paths so dear to me.

And now we reach'd the orchard - plot; And, as we climb'd the hill, The sinking moon to Lucy's cot Came near and nearer still.

In one of those sweet dreams I slept, Kind Nature's gentlest boon! And all the while my eyes I ...

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