Relationships
"Witness thou"
From Poetical Works, ed. Knight (1896), vol. VIII
Relationships
Witness thou
The dear companion of my lonely walk,
My hope, my joy, my sister, and my friend,
Or something dearer still, if reason knows
A dearer thought, or in the heart of love
There be a dearer name.
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Codex Note
Composed 1802 (Knight). Fragment extracted from Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal.
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