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Alas! the idle tale of man is found Depicted in the dial’s moral round; With Hope Reflection blinds his sacred rays To gild the total tablet of his days; Yet still the sport of some malignant Power, He knows but from its shade the present hour.
Alas! the idle tale of man is found Depicted in the dial’s moral round; With Hope Reflection blinds his sacred rays To gild the total tablet of his days; Yet still the sport of some malignant Power, He knows but from its shade the present hour.
Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
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- Author or tradition
- William Wordsworth
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- Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
author lifetime midpoint (1770–1850)
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 534 · printed citation: Wordsworth · subject: SHADE—SHADOW
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