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The Prose Works of William Wordsworth

PREFACE
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The stir of emancipation may again be felt at the mouths as well as at the sources of the Rhine.

Poland perhaps will not be insensible; Kosciusko and his compeers may not have bled in vain.

Nor is Hungarian loyalty to be overlooked.

And, for Spain itself, the territory is wide: let it be overrun: the torrent will weaken as the water spreads.

And, should all resistance disappear, be not daunted: extremes meet: and how often do hope and despair almost touch each other--though unconscious of their neighbourhood, because their faces are turned different ways! yet, in a moment, the one shall vanish; and the other begin a career in the fulness of her joy.
But we may turn from these thoughts: for the present juncture is most auspicious.


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