“The stars of midnight shall be dear
To her; and she shall lean her ear
In many a secret place
Where rivulets dance their wayward round,
And beauty born of murmuring sound
Shall pass into her face.”

—  William Wordsworth

Three years she grew in Sun and Shower.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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English Romantic poet 1770–1850

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