In editions of 1822 to 1832, the first six lines of stanza v. were joined to the last seven of stanza vi., making up a single stanza (No. v.), and concluding the poem.
FOOTNOTES:
[IM] See the Author's Miscellaneous Poems, vol. ii.—W. W. 1822.
[IN] I retain Wordworth's spelling of the name of this place.—Ed.
XXVIII
THE COLUMN INTENDED BY BUONAPARTE FOR A TRIUMPHAL EDIFICE IN MILAN,
NOW LYING BY THE WAY-SIDE IN THE SIMPLON PASS[540]
Ambition—following down this far-famed slope