William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Source: Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood
“To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.”
Intimations of Immortality Stanza 11.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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