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.