“O Reader! had you in your mind
Such stores as silent thought can bring,
O gentle Reader! you would find
A tale in everything.”

—  William Wordsworth, book Lyrical Ballads

Simon Lee, st. 9 (1798).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

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English Romantic poet 1770–1850

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