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,