[Variant 3:]

1845
Well might I mourn that He was gone
Whose light I hailed when first it shone,
When, breaking forth as nature's own,
It showed my youth


1842

Well might I mourn that He was gone
Whose light I hailed when first it shone,
When, breaking forth as nature's own,
It showed my youth

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[Footnote A:]

It is dated thus by Wordsworth himself on three occasions, and the year of its composition is also indicated in the title of the poem.—Ed.

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[Footnote B:]

Compare Burns's poem To a Mountain Daisy, l. 15.—Ed.