As golden locks of birch, that rise and fall
On gales that breathe too gently to recal
Aught of the fading year's inclemency![FY]
FOOTNOTES:
[FX] See the Fenwick note prefixed to the Duddon Sonnets.—Ed.
[FY] "If, in Sonnet VI., Wordsworth was describing the Duddon in April, the lines
Golden locks of birch, that rise and fall
On gales that breathe too gently to recal
Aught of the fading year's inclemency,