The fairest, brightest, hues of ether fade,
and more especially the Fenwick note, prefixed to that sonnet.—ED.
[GW] This feminine complexion of the Cumbrian peasants who work in the higher mines, is probably in part due to the continual mists and moisture of the heights. It has been observed especially amongst the workers in the high slate quarries at Walna Scar.—ED.
[GX] In a note to the edition of 1814, Wordsworth added to the above quotation Southey's Retrospect. See p. [388] of this volume.
[GY] In 1814 Wordsworth added to this line a prefatory note to his Essay upon Epitaphs, and the Essay itself, for which see The Prose Works.
[GZ] On the 1st of August 1849, during the last year of the poet's life, he transcribed the five lines beginning—
Life, I repeat, is energy of love
on a presentation copy of his works, sent to Thomas Gough. It was one of the last things he ever wrote.—ED.