With warmer love, oh! with far deeper zeal

Of holier love. Nor wilt thou then forget,

That after many wanderings, many years

Of absence, these steep woods and lofty cliffs, 160

And this green pastoral landscape, were to me

More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake.

William Wordsworth.

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DEDICATION OF THE REVOLT OF ISLAM TO HIS WIFE.

So now my summer-task is ended, Mary,

And I return to thee, mine own heart’s home;