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LUCY (2) by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Poet Analysis

First Line: SHE DWELT AMONG THE UNTRODDEN WAYS
Last Line: THE DIFFERENCE TO ME!
Subject(s): DEATH; GRIEF; LOSS; LOVE; MOURNING; DEAD, THE; SORROW; SADNESS; BEREAVEMENT;

SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways
Beside the springs of Dove,
A Maid whom there were none to praise
And very few to love:

A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye!
-- Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.

She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!





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