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Wordsworth

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler · Samuel Butler

And I have been as far as Hull to see

What clothes he left or other property.

I am told that these lines occur in a poem by Wordsworth.  (Think of the expense!)  How thankful we ought to be that Wordsworth was only a poet and not a musician.  Fancy a symphony by Wordsworth!  Fancy having to sit it out!  And fancy what it would have been if he had written fugues!

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