Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind,
(1815)
and
Desponding Father! mark this altered bough,
(1835).—ED.
[DL] Compare The Borderers, act IV. 11. 124, 125 (see vol. i. p. 198)—
Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
[DM] See The Prelude, book ix. 1. 68 (vol. iii. p. 295).—ED.
[DN] During the American War of Independence, trees were planted as symbols of freedom. This custom passed over to France. The Jacobins planted the first tree of Liberty in Paris in 1790, and the practice spread rapidly. At each revolutionary period it was revived, and during the Empire again suppressed. A treatise has been written on the custom, by the Abbé Grégoire.—ED.