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The Tables Turned

William Wordsworth

The Tables Turned is a poem written by William Wordsworth in 1798 and published in his Lyrical Ballads.

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“Up! up! my friend, and quit your books,
Or surely you 'll grow double!
Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks!
Why all this toil and trouble?”

William Wordsworth The Tables Turned

The Tables Turned.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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