Note 92 — Chapter IV · ROMANTIC MORALITY: THE IDEAL
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Once more the Ass, with motion dull, Upon the pivot of his skull Turned round his long left ear.
“The bard who soars to elegize an ass” and the “laureate of the long-eared kind” (English Bards and Scotch Reviewers) is, however, not Wordsworth but Coleridge. See his poem To a Young Ass, its mother being tethered near it.