The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 (of 8) · Chapter 31Appendix VII

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Lines written in Early Spring

, ll. 11, 12

Compare the

Laws of Manu

, i. 49:

"Vegetables, as well as animals, have internal consciousness, and are sensible of pleasure and pain."

This I have received from a correspondent, but I have never seen the English version.—Ed.