"Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils."
"Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed."
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Source: 'The Borderers' (1842) act 3, l. 1539
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