“A youth to whom was given
So much of earth—so much of heaven,
And such impetuous blood.”

— William Wordsworth , book Lyrical Ballads

Ruth, st. 21 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)

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English Romantic poet 1770–1850

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“A youth to whom was given
So much of earth—so much of heaven,
And such impetuous blood.”