“Me this unchartered freedom tires;
I feel the weight of chance-desires:
My hopes no more must change their name,
I long for a repose that ever is the same.”

—  William Wordsworth

Stanza 5. <br class="br"> Ode to Duty http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww271.html (1805)

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English Romantic poet 1770–1850

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