“May no rude hand deface it,
And its forlorn Hic jacet!”

—  William Wordsworth, book Lyrical Ballads

Ellen Irwin, or the Braes of Kirtle, st. 7 (1800).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

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English Romantic poet 1770–1850

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