“There is
One great society alone on earth:
The noble Living and the noble Dead.”
William Wordsworth book The Prelude
Bk. XI, l. 393.
The Prelude (1799-1805)
“Noble be man,
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Sets hims apart
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Das Göttliche (The Divine) (1783)
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