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Quotation from Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
“The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.”
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, Verse paragraph 4 (Lyrical Ballads, 1798 text)
What the mature man hears in nature that the boy did not: an awareness of human suffering.
Citation: "The still, sad music of humanity, Not harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue." — William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, Verse paragraph 4 (Lyrical Ballads, 1798 text). (id tintern-abbey-q5)
Portrait: Tintern-abbey-by-william-havell, William Havell, Public domain.
