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"The World Is Too Much with Us; Late and Soon

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"The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending we lay waste our powers . . ." What romantic idea is expressed in these lines from a poem by William Wordsworth?


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Generation X

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Taking Communion

A Christian sacrament in which bread and wine are consumed as symbols of Jesus’s body and blood, commemorating the Last Supper.

Ritual

A set of actions performed mainly for their symbolic value, prescribed by a culture or religion, to convey a specific meaning or tradition.

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