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

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

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Compare Walter Savage Landor, Gebir, book i. l. 159—

But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the Sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked His chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one and it awakens, then apply Its polish'd lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.

Compare also the Fenwick note to the Evening Voluntary, beginning—

ED. What mischief cleaves

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