“Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there
In happier beauty; more pellucid streams,
An ampler ether, a diviner air,
And fields invested with purpureal gleams.”

—  William Wordsworth, Laodamia

Stanza 18.
Laodamia (1814)

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English Romantic poet 1770–1850

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