The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 3 (of 8)

by William Wordsworth

Composed 1805.—Published 1807

[The Poem]
[Sir George Beaumont painted two pictures of this subject, one of which he gave to Mrs. Wordsworth, saying she ought to have it; but Lady Beaumont interfered, and after Sir George's death she gave it to Sir Uvedale Price, at whose house at Foxley I have seen it.—I. F.]
Placed by Wordsworth among his "Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces."—Ed.

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