• When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country--am I to be blamed?

    William Wordsworth: When men change swords for ledgers, and desert
The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed
I had, my Country--am I to be blamed?
    William Wordsworth (1851). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ...”, p.255