“Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud —
We in ourselves rejoice!
And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight,
All melodies the echoes of that voice,
All colours a suffusion from that light.”

St. 5
Dejection: An Ode (1802)

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English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834

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