This and the three following lines were placed here in the edition of 1836. See note to the previous page.—Ed.
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To a Butterfly (1)
Composed March 14, 1802.—Published 1807
[Written in the Orchard, Town-end, Grasmere. My sister and I were parted immediately after the death of our mother, who died in 1778, both being very young.—I. F.]
One of the "Poems referring to the Period of Childhood." —Ed.