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Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.

William Wordsworth. 1770–1850

519. Lucy v

A SLUMBER did my spirit seal; 
  I had no human fears: 
She seem’d a thing that could not feel 
  The touch of earthly years. 
 
No motion has she now, no force;         5
  She neither hears nor sees; 
Roll’d round in earth’s diurnal course, 
  With rocks, and stones, and trees.