The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 6 (of 8)

by William Wordsworth

And fancy prized the murmuring spinning-wheel

In sympathies inexplicably fine,

Instilled a confidence how sweet to feel!

That ever, in the night calm, when the sheep

Upon their grassy beds lay couched in sleep,

The quickening spindle drew a trustier line. Ed.

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