This must be assigned to the same London visit, in the spring of 1806, referred to in the note to the previous poem.
Charles Lamb wrote to Wordsworth in 1815, "Your Power of Music reminded me of his" (Bourne's) "poem of The Ballad Singer in the Seven Dials."—Ed.
VARIANTS:
[1] 1815.
... dusky-faced ... 1807.
[2] 1815.
... for store;— 1807.
[3] 1827.
There's a Cripple ... 1807.