EC Literature

"The man who does not read

good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."

Mark Twain

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POEM OF THE UNIT

The World is too much with us; late and soon

by William Wordsworth

The world is too much with us; late and soon,

Getting and sepnding, we lay waste our powers:

Little we see in Nature that is ours;

We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

The Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;

The winds that will be howling at all hours;

And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;

For this, for everything, we are out of tune;

It moves us not. --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.