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Poems Of William Wordsworth: To A Distant Friend

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

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To A Distant Friend

Why art thou silent? Is thy love a plant Of such a weak fibre that the treacherous air Of absence withers what was once so fair? Is there no debt to pay, no boon to grant?

Yet have my thoughts for thee been vigilant, Bound to thy service with unceasing care - The mind's least generous wish a mendicant For nought but what thy happiness could spare.

Speak! - though this soft warm heart, once free to hold A thousand tender pleasures, thine and mine, Be left more desolate, more dreary cold

Than a forsaken bird's - nest fill'd with snow 'Mid its own bush of ...

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