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William Wordsworth: Heaven lies about...

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Heaven lies about us in our infancy!
Shades of the prison-house begin to close
Upon the growing boy.

Source: Intimations of Immortality, st. 5. See above for Ambrose Bierce's riposte to this.
-- 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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