William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.
If This Great World of Joy and PainWilliam Wordsworth (1770–1850)
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Revolve in one sure track;
If freedom, set, will rise again,
And virtue, flown, come back:
Woe to the purblind crew who fill
The heart with each day’s care;
Nor gain, from past or future, skill
To bear, and to forbear!