William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.
Personal Talk, IIIWilliam Wordsworth (17701850)
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We may find pleasure: wilderness and wood,
Blank ocean and mere sky, support that mood
Which with the lofty sanctifies the low.
Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and good:
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,
Our pastime and our happiness will grow.
There find I personal themes, a plenteous store,
Matter wherein right voluble I am,
To which I listen with a ready ear;
Two shall be named, pre-eminently dear,—
The gently Lady married to the Moor;
And heavenly Una with her milk-white Lamb.