† These MS. variants occur in a copy of the sonnet written by Wordsworth for Mrs. Arnold at Foxhowe.
INSCRIPTION
For a Monument in Crosthwaite Church, in the Vale of Keswick
Composed 1843.—Published 1845
One of the “Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces.”—Ed.
Ye vales and hills whose beauty hither drew
The poet’s steps, and fixed him here, on you,
His eyes have closed! And ye, lov’d books, no more
Shall Southey feed upon your precious lore,
To works that ne’er shall forfeit their renown 5
Adding immortal labours of his own—