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“Fair as a star, when only one is shining in the sky.”

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Wordsworth makes beauty quiet and easily overlooked: Lucy is compared not to spectacle but to a single star whose isolation makes it more noticeable.

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“She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways,” second stanza.

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