[DB] Compare The Primrose of the Rock composed in 1831. The rock which the Wordsworth family were in the habit of calling "Glow-worm Rock" is on the right hand side of the road, as you ascend from Rydal, by the middle path, over White Moss Common to Grasmere.—Ed.
INSCRIPTIONS SUPPOSED TO BE FOUND IN AND NEAR A HERMIT'S CELL
1818
Composed 1818.—Published 1820
The five poems which follow were placed among the "Inscriptions," from 1820 onwards.—Ed.
I
"Hopes, what are they?—Beads of Morning"
Hopes, what are they?—Beads of morning
Strung on slender[311] blades of grass;