FOOTNOTES:

[425] Some of the stanzas of this poem were composed in Nov. 1830, on the way from Rydal to Cambridge. See Wordsworth's letter to W. R. Hamilton, Nov. 26, 1830.—Ed.

[426] Compare Lycidas, l. 142.—Ed.

[427] Newlands. See the Fenwick note, p. [146].—Ed.


["ONCE I COULD HAIL (HOWE'ER SERENE THE SKY)"]

Composed 1826.—Published 1827

"Late, late yestreen I saw the new moone
Wi' the auld moone in hir arme."

Ballad of Sir Patrick Spence, Percy's Reliques.—W. W.

["No faculty yet given me to espy
The dusky Shape within her arms imbound."