“Happier of happy though I be, like them
I cannot take possession of the sky,
Mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there
One of a mighty multitude whose way
Is a perpetual harmony and dance
Magnificent.”

—  William Wordsworth , The Recluse

The Recluse, l. 198 (1805).

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English Romantic poet 1770–1850

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