[Footnote 19:]

It may not be too trivial a fact to mention that Wordsworth numbered the lines of his earliest publication, 'An Evening Walk, in l793.—Ed.

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[Footnote 20:]

Another fact, not too trivial to mention, is that in the original MS. of the 'Lines composed at Grasmere', etc., Wordsworth sent it to the printer "Lines written," but changed it in proof to "Lines composed."—Ed.

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[Extract from the Conclusion of a Poem, composed in Anticipation of leaving School]

Composed 1786.—Published 1815