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The poetical works of William Wordsworth

... In six volumes ... A new edition

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DEDICATION. (SENT WITH THESE POEMS, IN MS., TO ------.)

Dear Fellow-travellers! think not that the Muse,
To You presenting these memorial Lays,
Can hope the general eye thereon would gaze,
As on a mirror that gives back the hues
Of living Nature; no—though free to choose
The greenest bowers, the most inviting ways,
The fairest landscapes and the brightest days—
Her skill she tried with less ambitious views.
For You she wrought: Ye only can supply
The life, the truth, the beauty: she confides
In that enjoyment which with You abides,
Trusts to your love and vivid memory;
Thus far contented, that for You her verse
Shall lack not power the ‘meeting soul to pierce!’
Rydal Mount, Nov. 1821. W. WORDSWORTH.