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When from our better selves we have too longBeen parted by the hurrying world, and droop,Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired,How gracious, how benign, is Solitude

When from our better selves we have too longBeen parted by the hurrying world, and droop,Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired,How gracious, how benign, is Solitude

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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