"That moveth altogether, if it move at all" (in De Quincey's "Confessions of an English Opium Eater") (original) (raw)

De Quincey quotes from Wordsworth's "Resolution and Independence" XI (1807). The stanza reads

Himself he propped, limbs, body, and pale face,
Upon a long grey staff of shaven wood:
And, still as I drew near with gentle pace,
Upon the margin of that moorish flood
Motionless as a cloud the old Man stood,
That heareth not the loud winds when they call
And moveth all together, if it move at all.

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