“Chatterton, the marvellous boy,
The sleepless soul that perished in his pride.”
Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770) English poet, forger
William Wordsworth, "Resolution and Independence" (1802) line 43.
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“I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy,
The sleepless Soul that perished in his pride;
Of Him who walked in glory and in joy
Following his plough, along the mountain-side:
By our own spirits are we deified:
We Poets in our youth begin in gladness;
But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.”
Stanza 7.
Resolution and Independence (1807)
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