“The common growth of Mother Earth
Suffices me,—her tears, her mirth,
Her humblest mirth and tears.”

—  William Wordsworth, Peter Bell

Prologue, stanza 27.
Peter Bell (1798)

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English Romantic poet 1770–1850

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