[A] Compare Dyer's Fleece, book iii.—Ed.
1812
The years 1812 and 1813 were poetically even less productive than 1811 had been. The first of them was saddened by domestic losses, which deprived the poet, for a time, of the power of work, and almost of any interest in the labour to which his life was devoted. Three short pieces are all that belong to 1812 and 1813 respectively.—Ed.
SONG FOR THE SPINNING WHEEL
FOUNDED UPON A BELIEF PREVALENT AMONG THE PASTORAL VALES OF WESTMORELAND
Composed 1812.—Published 1820
[The belief on which this is founded I have often heard expressed by an old neighbour of Grasmere.—I. F.]