The Annals of America---
Volume 7, 1841-1849:
MANIFEST DESTINY
From the Grasmere Edition*---
The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
Volume IX, 1834-1847:
LAST POEMS
TO THE PENNSYLVANIANS
1845
DAYS undefiled by luxury or sloth,
Firm self-denial, manners grave and staid,
Rights equal, laws with cheerfulness obeyed,
Words that require no sanction from an oath.
And simple honesty a common growth--
This high repute, with bounteous Nature's aid,
Won confidence, now ruthlessly betrayed
At will, your power the measure of your troth!--
All who revere the memory of Penn
Grieve for the land on whose wild woods his name
Was fondly grafted with a virtuous aim,
Renounced, abandoned by degenerate Men
For state-dishonour black as ever came
To upper air from Mammon's loathsome den.
From the Grasmere Edition*---
The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
Volume IX, 1834-1847:
LAST POEMS
TO THE PENNSYLVANIANS
1845
DAYS undefiled by luxury or sloth,
Firm self-denial, manners grave and staid,
Rights equal, laws with cheerfulness obeyed,
Words that require no sanction from an oath.
And simple honesty a common growth--
This high repute, with bounteous Nature's aid,
Won confidence, now ruthlessly betrayed
At will, your power the measure of your troth!--
All who revere the memory of Penn
Grieve for the land on whose wild woods his name
Was fondly grafted with a virtuous aim,
Renounced, abandoned by degenerate Men
For state-dishonour black as ever came
To upper air from Mammon's loathsome den.
*Houghton Mifflin. Boston 1911
10 Volumes.
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