“Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;…”

“Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.”

— William Wordsworth

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