Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DEDICATION. SENT WITH THESE POEMS, IN MS., TO -., by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH


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First Line: Dear fellow-travellers! Think not that the muse
Last Line: "shall lack not power the ""meeting soul to pierce!"


DEAR Fellow-travellers! think not that the Muse,
To You presenting these memorial Lays,
Can hope the general eye thereon would gaze,
As on a mirror that gives back the hues
Of living Nature; no -- though free to choose
The greenest bowers, the most inviting ways,
The fairest landscapes and the brightest days --
Her skill she tried with less ambitious views.
For You she wrought: Ye only can supply
The life, the truth, the beauty: she confides
In that enjoyment which with You abides,
Trusts to your love and vivid memory;
Thus far contented, that for You her verse
Shall lack not power the "meeting soul to pierce!"






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