FOOTNOTES:
[HO] Wordsworth's spelling is retained.—Ed.
[HP] See The Solitary Reaper (vol. ii. p. 398).—Ed.
[HQ] See Descriptive Sketches (vol. i. p. 59).—Ed.
XV
AFTER-THOUGHT
Oh Life! without thy chequered scene
Of right and wrong, of weal and woe,
Success and failure, could a ground