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Poems Of William Wordsworth: World is Too Much With Us, The

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

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World is Too Much With Us, The

The World is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours And are up - gather'd now like sleeping flowers, For this, for every thing, we are out of tune;

It moves us not. - Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, - So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,

Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of ...

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