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Works of William Wordsworth: Three Years She Grew In Sun And Shower

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Wordsworth, William

Wordsworth, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Three Years She Grew In Sun And Shower

The poem has 42 lines; 35 of them are spoken by Nature when she declared,
"This Child I to myself will take. . . ." Nature took a three-year-old Lucy.
She was as lovely as any flower that had ever decorated the earth that
nourished it, and Nature takes Lucy just because of her loveliness. Lucy will
grow into a beautiful woman through the ministry of Nature - through contact
with "rock and plain," "glade and bower," "floating clouds," the willow, "the
motions of the Storm," "The stars of midnight," "rivulets," ...

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