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Will I sink into my persona

With my self buried

And live like a stranger in a strange land

Or will I experience the world

Come to terms with it

And embrace it with a peace of mind

The World is Too Much with Us   by William Wordsworth

The world is too much with us; late and soon,

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;

Little we see in Nature that is ours;

We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,

The winds that will be howling at all hours,

And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,

For this, for everything, we are out of tune;

It moves us not.

–Great God! I’d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;

(1) So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,

(2) Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus

(3) rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton

(4) blow his wreathed horn.

(1) Brought up in an outdated religion.

(2) Meadow.

(3) Greek sea god capable of taking many shapes.

(4) Another sea god, often depicted as trumpeting on a shell.