Beloved
Freedom!
Wordsworth - 1
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delicious .
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1820.
]
[Variant 167:
1836.
Hard lot! --for no Italian arts are thine
To cheat, or chear, to soften, or refine. 1820.
To soothe or cheer, . . . 1827. ]
[Variant 168:
1836.
Beloved Freedom! were it mine to stray,
With shrill winds roaring . . . 1820. ]
[Variant 169:
1836.
O'er . . . 1820. ]
[Variant 170:
1836.
(Compressing four lines into two. )
. . . o'er Lugano blows;
In the wide ranges of many a varied round,
Fleet as my passage was, I still have found
That where proud courts their blaze of gems display,
The lilies of domestic joy decay, 1820.
[Variant 167:
1836.
Hard lot! --for no Italian arts are thine
To cheat, or chear, to soften, or refine. 1820.
To soothe or cheer, . . . 1827. ]
[Variant 168:
1836.
Beloved Freedom! were it mine to stray,
With shrill winds roaring . . . 1820. ]
[Variant 169:
1836.
O'er . . . 1820. ]
[Variant 170:
1836.
(Compressing four lines into two. )
. . . o'er Lugano blows;
In the wide ranges of many a varied round,
Fleet as my passage was, I still have found
That where proud courts their blaze of gems display,
The lilies of domestic joy decay, 1820.