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Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.

William Wordsworth. 1770–1850

516. Lucy ii

SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways 
  Beside the springs of Dove, 
A Maid whom there were none to praise 
  And very few to love: 
 
A violet by a mossy stone         5
  Half hidden from the eye! 
Fair as a star, when only one 
  Is shining in the sky. 
 
She lived unknown, and few could know 
  When Lucy ceased to be;  10
But she is in her grave, and oh, 
  The difference to me!