Death & Dying
Lines Written on a Blank Leaf in a Copy of the Author's Poem The Excursion, upon Hearing of the Death of the Late Vicar of Kendal
From Poetical Works, ed. Knight (1896), vol. VI
To public notice, with reluctance strong,
Did I deliver this unfinished Song;
Yet for one happy issue;--and I look
With self-congratulation on the Book
Which pious, learned, MURFITT saw and read;--
Upon my thoughts his saintly Spirit fed;
He conned the new-born Lay with grateful heart--
Foreboding not how soon he must depart;
Unweeting that to him the joy was given
Which good men take with them from earth to heaven.
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Wordsworth, William. “Lines Written on a Blank Leaf in a Copy of the Author's Poem The Excursion, upon Hearing of the Death of the Late Vicar of Kendal.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wordsworth/282/.
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Wordsworth, William. “Lines Written on a Blank Leaf in a Copy of the Author's Poem The Excursion, upon Hearing of the Death of the Late Vicar of Kendal.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wordsworth/282/.
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