Begun 9th May, finished 11th May, 1802.—Published 1815

[Composed in the orchard, Town-end, Grasmere, Coleridge living with us much at this time: his son Hartley has said, that his father's character and habits are here preserved in a livelier way than in anything that has been written about him. I. F.]

One of the "Poems founded on the Affections."—Ed.