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In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness.

In heaven above, And earth below, they best can serve true gladness Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness.

William Wordsworth
Sadness, Heaven, Sorrow
William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.215

The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.

William Wordsworth
Sadness, Weight, Wonder
William Wordsworth (1857). “The Earlier Poems of William Wordsworth: Corrected as in the Latest Editions. With Preface, and Notes Showing the Text as it Stood in 1815”, p.194

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.

William Wordsworth
Sadness, Men, Solitude
1814 'The Excursion', preface, l.1-5.

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