'At operas and plays parading,
Mortgaging, gambling, masquerading.'
Burns, The Two Dogs, a Tale, II. 124-5.—Ed.
Note:
"June 8th (1802).—After tea William came out and walked, and wrote that poem, The sun has long been set, etc. He walked on our own path, and wrote the lines; he called me into the orchard and there repeated them to me."
(Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal.) The "Friend in whose presence the lines were thrown off," was his sister.—Ed.
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