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After being raised in Cumberland (in the Lake District of northwest England) and educated at Cambridge, Wordsworth spent some time in France at the height of its Revolution. There, also, he and Annette Vallon became the

Prophecy February, 1807, A

by William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

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High deeds, O Germans, are to come from you!
Thus in your books the record shall be found,
'A watchword was pronounced, a potent sound--
arminius!--all the people quaked like dew
Stirred by the breeze; they rose, a Nation, true,
True to herself--the mighty Germany,
She of the Danube and the Northern Sea,
She rose, and off at once the yoke she threw.
All power was given her in the dreadful trance;

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