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William Wordsworth - The Tables Turned

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Come forth into the light of things,
Let Nature be your teacher.


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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?


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One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can.


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Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:—
We murder to dissect.
Enough of science and of art;
Close up these barren leaves.


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Sweet is the lore which Nature brings;
Our meddling intellect
Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of Things:—
We murder to dissect.


William Wordsworth

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Born: April 7, 1770
Died: April 23, 1850 (aged 80)
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