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"It is no Spirit who from heaven hath flown"

Composed 1803.—Published 1807

[The Poem]

[Written at Town-end, Grasmere. I remember the instant my sister S. H., called me to the window of our Cottage, saying, "Look how beautiful is yon star! It has the sky all to itself." I composed the verses immediately.—I. F.]