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The Fountain, a Conversation' in Lyrical Ballads, vol. 2

The Fountain, a Conversation' in Lyrical Ballads, vol. 2 (1800) Inferred

InferredThis is a confirmed quotation from William Wordsworth’s poem “The Fountain” (Lyrical Ballads, 1800): “And yet the wiser mind / Mourns less for what age takes away / Than what it leaves behind.” Fuller alters “age” to “Time” and “it” to “he.” These minor variants are consistent with a quotation from memory. The author and title are inferred from the quoted phrase.

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New-York Daily Tribune

“New Year's Day” · January 1, 1845, January 1845 · p. 1

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“The wiser mind / Mourns less for what Time takes away / Than what he leaves behind.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.

Inferred This is a confirmed quotation from William Wordsworth’s poem “The Fountain” (Lyrical Ballads, 1800): “And yet the wiser mind / Mourns less for what age takes away / Than what it leaves behind.” Fuller alters “age” to “Time” and “it” to “he.” These minor variants are consistent with a quotation from memory. The author and title are inferred from the quoted phrase.