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And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.
And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.
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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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
The Excursion. Book vii.
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