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The Worlds of Gilbert and Sullivan

Dorothy Wordsworth was William's younger sister. When their parents died, during their childhood, they became very close friends and supported one another throughout their lives. Dorothy was a distinguished writer, and her journals about their travels strongly influenced her brother's writing. He referred to them in a number of his poems, the classical case being the non-titled poem known throughout the world as 'The Daffodils'. 

She has been described as 'the most distinguished of English writers who never wrote a line for the general public'. So here is a chance to read one of her delightfully perceptive poems . . .

The Wind

What way does the Wind come?
What way does he go?
He rides over the water, and over the snow,
Through wood and through vale: and o'er rocky height
Which goat cannot climb, takes his sounding flight.

He tosses about in every bare tree,
As, if you look up, you plainly may see;
But how he will come, and whither he goes,
There's never a scholar in England knows.

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