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The Blind Highland Boy
A Tale Told by the Fire-side, after Returning to the Vale of Grasmere[A]
Date of composition uncertain.—Published 1807
[The story was told me by George Mackereth, for many years parish-clerk of Grasmere. He had been an eye-witness of the occurrence. The vessel in reality was a washing-tub, which the little fellow had met with on the shores of the Loch.—I.F.]
One of the "Poems referring to the Period of Childhood" in 1815 and 1820.—Ed.