 Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did...  The American Journal of Education - Page 73edited by - 1856Full view - About this book
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...though neither OED nor EDD mentions it. According to Hales (1884b), the lines from Wordsworth's sonnet: "So didst thou travel on life's common way / In cheerful...thy heart / The lowliest duties on herself did lay" ("Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour...") are misunderstood by "the general reader" (yet... | |
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