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				William Wordsworth 1770-1850 Reflected in many of Wordsworth's poems is his sympathy towards animals. These, as well as the excerpt above can be found in William Wordsworth's Complete Poetical Works (London, 1888); Online at Bartleby.com. 1798 \| William Wordsworth, Lines Written in Early Spring, lines 13-16; Online at Bartleby.com. Lines Written in Early Spring The birds around me hopped and played, Their thoughts I cannot measure:— But the least motion which they made It seemed a thrill of pleasure. 1800 \| William Wordsworth, Hart-Leap Well, lines 171-190; Online at Bartleby.com. Hart-Leap Well "Grey-headed Shepherd, thou hast spoken well; Small difference lies between thy creed and mine: This Beast not unobserved by Nature fell; His death was mourned by sympathy divine. "The Being, that is in the clouds and air, That is in the green leaves among the groves, Maintains a deep and reverential care For the unoffending creatures whom he loves. "The pleasure-house is dust:—behind, before, This is no common waste, no common gloom; But Nature, in due course of time, once more Shall here put on her beauty and her bloom. "She leaves these objects to a slow decay, That what we are, and have been, may be known; But at the coming of the milder day, These monuments shall all be overgrown. "One lesson, Shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals; Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels." 1806 \| William Wordsworth, The Redbreast Chasing the Butterfly, lines 1-3, 9-11; Online at Bartleby.com. The Redbreast Chasing the Butterfly ART thou the bird whom Man loves best, The pious bird with the scarlet breast, Our little English Robin; ^{. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .} The bird, that by some name or other All men who know thee call their brother, The darling of children and men?
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