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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 4 (of 8)

Note A — TO SLEEP

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Compare The Faërie Queene, book I. canto i. stanza 41—

And more to lulle him in his slumber soft, A trickling streame from high rock tumbling downe, And ever-drizling raine upon the loft, Mixt with a murmuring winde, much like the sowne Of swarming Bees, did cast him in a swowne.Ed.

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