[672] In a MS. letter to Sir George Beaumont I find the poem entitled "Twenty minutes Exercise on the Terrace last night, but Scene within doors."—Ed.
[673] Compare the Sonnet beginning—
While Anna's peers and early playmates tread (p. [168].)—Ed.
[674] Compare A Midsummer Night's Dream, act II. scene i. l. 164.—Ed.
PRESENTIMENTS
Composed 1830.—Published 1835
[Written at Rydal Mount.—I. F.]
One of the "Poems of the Imagination."—Ed.
Presentiments! they judge not right
Who deem that ye from open light
Retire in fear of shame;
All heaven-born Instincts shun the touch
Of vulgar sense,—and, being such, 5
Such privilege ye claim.