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Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.
Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.
Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
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- William Wordsworth
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- Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.
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