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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:5016
AUTHOR:William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
QUOTATION:Great God! I ’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn,
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea,
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
ATTRIBUTION:Miscellaneous Sonnets. Part i. xxxiii.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:William Wordsworth Collection.
 

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