The life, the truth, the beauty: she confides

In that enjoyment which with You abides,

Trusts to your love and vivid memory;

Thus far contented, that for You her verse

Shall lack not power the "meeting soul to pierce!"[HA]

W. Wordsworth.

Rydal Mount, Nov. 1821[470]


VARIANTS:

[467] Not in the editions of 1822-1832.