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Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.

September, 1819

William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

AND, sooth to say, yon vocal grove

Albeit uninspired by love,

By love untaught to ring,

May well afford to mortal ear

An impulse more profoundly dear

Than music of the spring.

But list! though winter’s storms be nigh,

Unchecked is that soft harmony:

There lives Who can provide

For all his creatures; and in him,

Even like the radiant Seraphim,

These Choristers confide.