'feverish, and tired, and restless,'
'thither I repaired,
Scout-like, and gained the summit;'
'The intermitting prospect of the copse.
And plain beneath,'
Ed.
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Note VI
Coleridge's Lines to Wordsworth, on Hearing The Prelude Recited by him at Coleorton, in 1806.
The following is a copy of a version of these Lines, sent by Coleridge to Sir George Beaumont, at Dunmow, Essex, in January, 1807. The variations, both in the title and in the text, from that which Coleridge finally adopted (see p. 129), are interesting in many ways: