Wordsworth. 
pr^ASS of Parnassus — Beauty, 
i.\. sun and shower. 
• Then Nature said, 
“A lovelier flower 
On earth was never sown ; 
rhis child I to myself will take, 
3he shall be mine, and I will make 
A Lady of my own. 
“ Then floating clouds their state shall 
lend 
To her ; for her the willows bend ; 
Nor shall she fail to see 
Even in the motions of the storm 
Grace that shall mould the maiden’s form 
By silent sympathy. 
To her ; and she shall lean her ear 
In many a secret place 
Where rivulets dance their wayward round, 
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