Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan.... Author: William Wordsworth Copy Quote More from William Wordsworth “The music in my heart I boreLong after it was heard no more.” “Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sigh…” “This son of his old age was yet more dear— Less from instinctive tenderness, th…” “Delight and liberty, the simple creed of childhood.”