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All creatures and all objects, in degree, Are friends and patrons of humanity. There are to whom the garden, grove and field Perpetual lessons of forbearance yield; Who would not lightly violate the grace The lowliest flower possesses in its place, Nor shorten the sweet life, too fugitive, Which nothing less than Infinite Power could give.
All creatures and all objects, in degree, Are friends and patrons of humanity. There are to whom the garden, grove and field Perpetual lessons of forbearance yield; Who would not lightly violate the grace The lowliest flower possesses in its place, Nor shorten the sweet life, too fugitive, Which nothing less than Infinite Power could give.
Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
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- William Wordsworth
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- Approximate author period: c. 1810 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 138 · printed citation: Wordsworth (Humanity). · compiler notes excluded
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