O my Antigone, beloved child!

[CF] Compare in the lines on Lucy, beginning, "Three years she grew in sun and shower" (vol. ii. p. 81)—

She shall be sportive as the fawn

That wild with glee across the lawn

Or up the mountain springs.

[CG] Compare Paradise Lost, book ii. l. 409.—Ed.


TO ——,

On her first Ascent to the Summit of Helvellyn

Composed 1816.—Published 1820.