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Animal Tranquility And Decay

The little hedgerow birds,

That peck along the roads, regard him not.

He travels on, and in his face, his step,

His gait, is one expression: every limb,

His look and bending figure, all bespeakA man who does not move with pain, but

With thought.—He is insensibly

To settled quiet: he is one by

All effort seems forgotten; one to

Long patience hath such mild composure given,

That patience now doth seem a thing of

He hath no need.

He is by nature

To peace so perfect that the young

With envy, what the Old Man hardly feels.

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Extra lines - found sked him whither he was bound, and

The object of his journey; he

That he was going many miles to takeA last leave of his son, a mariner,

Who from a sea-fight had been brought to Falmouth,

And there was lying in an hospital.

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William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic …

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