OPINION CONCURRED IN.
Sir: My heart with pleasure filled when I saw that Riquarius quoted it as I always want to do, “with rapture fills.” While I realized it is the height of presumption to think I could improve on Wordsworth, don’t you agree with me that rapture is more expressive than pleasure? Jay Aye.
“Rapture” might be preferred for another reason: the accent falls on a stronger syllable. Suppose George Meredith had used “pleasure” in his lines—
“Lasting, too,
For souls not lent in usury,
The rapture of the forward view.”
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]Every good poet has left lines that could be bettered for another ear. Probably Wordsworth leads the list.