[R] i.e. Yarrow Unvisited.—Ed.
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Written[40] on a blank leaf in a copy of the author's poem "The Excursion," upon hearing of the death of the late Vicar of Kendal.
Composed 1814.—Published 1815
One of the "Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces."—Ed.
To public notice, with reluctance strong,
Did I deliver this unfinished Song;
Yet for one happy issue;—and I look
With self-congratulation on the Book