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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 5 (of 8)

Note CV — PREFACE TO THE EDITION OF 1814 (continued 2)

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—Voiceless the stream descends ... With timid lapse ...

is a perfect description of this tiniest and gentlest of rills, flowing through the meadow-grass; while the "chasm of sky above," of which the Wanderer speaks, though an obvious exaggeration, is more appropriate to this spot than to any other in the vale.—ED.

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