1807 In Poetry
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
- Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
- Little we see in Nature that is ours;
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“The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit,—not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.”
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