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William Wordsworth Quotes about Youth

A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.

A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven.

William Wordsworth (1835). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc”, p.88

To be young was very heaven!

"The French Revolution, as It Appeared to Enthusiasts" l. 4 (1809). The same lines appear in Wordsworth's The Prelude, bk. 9, l. 108 (1850).