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Quotation from Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
“Five years have passed; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs With a sweet inland murmur.”
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, Verse paragraph 1 (Lyrical Ballads, 1798 text)
The opening lines measure the time away and return the speaker to the sound of the river.
Citation: "Five years have passed; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs With a sweet inland murmur." — William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, Verse paragraph 1 (Lyrical Ballads, 1798 text). (id tintern-abbey-q1)
Portrait: Tintern-abbey-by-william-havell, William Havell, Public domain.
