From heart-experience, and in humblest senseOf Modesty, that he, who in his youthA daily wanderer among woods and fieldsWith living Nature hath been intimate,Not only in that raw unpractised timeIs stirred to ecstasy, as others are,By glittering verse but further, doth receive,In measure only dealt out to himself, Knowledge and increase of enduring joyFrom the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.
-William Wordsworth
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