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William Wordsworth - O’erweening Statesmen Have Full Long Relied
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O`ERWEENING Statesmen have full long relied
On fleets and armies, and external wealth:
But from `within` proceeds a Nation`s health;
Which shall not fail, though poor men cleave with pride
To the paternal floor; or turn aside,
In the thronged city, from the walks of gain,
As being all unworthy to detain
A Soul by contemplation sanctified.
There are who cannot languish in this strife,
Spaniards of every rank, by whom the good                   
Of such high course was felt and understood;
Who to their Country`s cause have bound a life
Erewhile, by solemn consecration, given
To labour and to prayer, to nature, and to heaven.
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