Ye heavenly Birds! to your Progenitors.[EL]
VARIANT:
[406] 1827.
1820.
While I bethought me of a distant day;
FOOTNOTES:
[EK] Wallachia is the country alluded to.—W. W. 1820.
[EL] The Wordsworths remained some time in London in 1820, before they started for the Continent, on the 1st of August. They came up to be present at the marriage of Mr. Monkhouse. It is probable that they visited Richmond during this visit, and that the above Sonnet was suggested, both by the nightingale's song at Richmond, and by the prospect of their own Continental Tour. In connection with the six last lines of the Sonnet, it may be remembered that, when sailing between Kew and Richmond, Thomson,