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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 7 (of 8)

Note 683 — 1830

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See, in Constable's "England's Helicon," Dametus' song to his Diaphenia, stanza 2—

Diaphenia like the spreading roses That in thy sweets all sweet encloses.

Also in Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Godfrey of Bullogne; or the Recovery of Jerusalem, book ii. stanza 18—

A veil obscured the sunshine of her eyes, The rose within herself her sweetness closed.—Ed.

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