Composed 1804.—Published 1820
[The Poem]
[Written at Town-end, Grasmere. Suggested by the conversation of our next neighbour, Margaret Ashburner.—I. F.]
This "next neighbour" is constantly referred to in Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal.
Included in 1820 among the "Poems of Sentiment and Reflection"; in 1827, and afterwards, it was classed with those "founded on the Affections."—Ed.