"Then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils."
"Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more."
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Source: William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author”, p.211
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