Wordsworth

And I have been as far as Hull to see

What clothes he left or other property.

I am told that these lines occur in a poem by Wordsworth. (Think of the

expense!) How thankful we ought to be that Wordsworth was only a poet

and not a musician. Fancy a symphony by Wordsworth! Fancy having to sit

it out! And fancy what it would have been if he had written fugues!

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