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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.

‘She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways’

William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways

Beside the springs of Dove,

A Maid whom there were none to praise

And very few to love:

A violet by a mossy stone

Half hidden from the eye!

—Fair as a star, when only one

Is shining in the sky.

She lived unknown, and few could know

When Lucy ceased to be;

But she is in her grave, and, oh,

The difference to me!