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

Note 996 — 1834

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The nightingale is not usually heard in England farther north than the valley of the Trent.

Compare The Excursion, book iv. l. 1167 (vol. v. p. 188); also the lines (vol. iv, p. 67) beginning—

O Nightingale! thou surely art A creature of a "fiery heart."—Ed.

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