Upon The Same Event

WHEN, far and wide, swift as the beams of morn

The tidings past of servitude repealed,

And of that joy which shook the Isthmian Field,

The rough Aetolians smiled with bitter scorn.

''Tis known,' cried they, 'that he, who would adorn

His envied temples with the Isthmian crown,

Must either win, through effort of his own,

The prize, or be content to see it worn

By more deserving brows.--Yet so ye prop,

Sons of the brave who fought at Marathon,

Your feeble spirits! Greece her head hath bowed,

As if the wreath of liberty thereon

Would fix itself as smoothly as a cloud,

Which, at Jove's will, descends on Pelion's top.'

William Wordsworth

The English poet William Wordsworth is considered to be one of the most important literary figures in modern history, as well as one of the leading purveyors of the Romantic Movement. He was born in 1770, in Cumbria, and was one of four children. Over the course of his life, he continued to return to the Lake District, and eventually passed away in Cumbria, in 1850. The influence of William Wordsworth should not be underestimated, as he not only helped to kick-start the Romantic Age, he also formed half of one of the most famous literary partnerships in history. The friendship that he shared with fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge is now the stuff of legend, as is the subsequent fallout after the friendship fell apart.

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