FOOTNOTE:
[EN] See the note to Pastoral Character, in the "Ecclesiastical Sonnets," Part III. xviii.—Ed.
TO ENTERPRISE
Composed 1820.—Published 1822.
The Italian Itinerant, etc. [see p. 338], led to the train of thought which produced the annexed piece.—W. W. 1822.
This poem having risen out of the Italian Itinerant, etc. [page 338], it is here annexed.—W. W. 1827.
From 1822 this poem was included in the "Memorials of a Tour on the Continent." In 1845 it was placed among the "Poems of the Imagination."—Ed.
Keep for the Young the impassioned smile
Shed from thy countenance, as I see thee stand