“O born in days when wits were fresh and clear,
And life ran gaily as the sparkling Thames;
Before this strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims,
Its heads o’ertax’d, its palsied hearts, was rife.”

—  Matthew Arnold

St. 21
The Scholar Gypsy (1853)

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English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector… 1822–1888

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