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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

William Wordsworth
Love, Nature, Betrayal
William Wordsworth (1985). “William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude”, p.39, Cambridge University Press

Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.

William Wordsworth
Betrayal, Blow, Men
'The Borderers' (1842) act 3, l. 1539

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

William Wordsworth
Happiness, Betrayal, Shapes
William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems”, p.90

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