Excerpt from The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

Oft, through thy fair domains, illustrious Peer!

In youth I roamed, on youthful pleasures bent;

And mused in rocky cell or sylvan tent

Beside swirt-flowing Lowther's current clear.

- Now, by thy care befriended, I appear

Before thee, Lonsdale, and this Work present

A token (may it prove a monument)

Of high respect and gratitude sincere.

Gladly would I have waited till my task

Had reached its close; but Life is insecure,

And Hope full oft fallacious as a dream:

Therefore, for what is here produced, I ask

Thy favor; trusting that thou wilt not deem

The offering, though imperfect, premature.

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