And very few to read.
Behind a cloud his mystic sense,
Deep hidden who can spy?
Bright as the night when not a star
Is shining in the sky.
Unread his works—his “Milk White Doe”[75]
With dust is dark and dim;
It’s still in Longman’s shop, and oh!
The difference to him.
This clever parody was written by Hartley Coleridge, whose character Wordsworth prophetically divined when he was but six years old:—