... pleasure ...

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[Variant 2:]

... will be proud, and that same spot
Be dear unto the Muses evermore.

MS.

... will be proud, and that same spot
Be dear unto the Muses evermore.

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[Footnote A:] In the edition of 1842 the following footnote is given by Wordsworth,

"This biographical Sonnet, if so it may be called, together with the Epistle that follows, have been long suppressed from feelings of personal delicacy."

The "Epistle" was that addressed to Sir George Beaumont in 1811.—Ed.
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