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A power is passing from the earth
To breathless Nature's dark abyss;
But when the great and good depart,
What is it more than this -
That Man who is from God sent forth,
Doth yet again to God return?

Source: Referring to Charles James Fox, the hero of the liberal Whigs, who died in 1806. Lines on the Expected Dissolution of Mr. Fox.
-- William Wordsworth, (Apr 7 1770-1850), English poet; His Lyrical Ballads, 1798 are noted for their worship of nature and humanitarianism; poet laureate, 1843-50.

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