This and the next stanza were omitted from the edition of 1827, but restored in 1832.—Ed.
The notion is very general, that the Cross on the back and shoulders of this Animal has the origin here alluded to.—W. W. 1819.
I cannot suffer this line to pass, without noticing that it was suggested by Mr. Haydon's noble Picture of Christ's Entry into Jerusalem.—W. W. 1820.
Into the same picture Haydon "introduced Wordsworth bowing in reverence and awe." See the essay on "The Portraits of Wordsworth" in a later volume, and the portrait itself, which will be reproduced in the volume containing the Life of the poet.—Ed.