[343] In the text of 1800, this line is, “He stopped and took the penny up,” but in the list of errata, “stooped” is substituted for “stopped.”—Ed.
[344] 1815.
With its tantara sound would come
1800.
“THERE IS A SHAPELESS CROWD OF UNHEWN STONES”
Numerous fragments of verse, more or less unfinished, occur in the Grasmere Journals, written by Dorothy Wordsworth. One of these—which is broken up into irregular fragments, and very incomplete—is evidently part of the material which was written about the old Cumbrian shepherd Michael. The successive alterations of the text of the poem Michael are in the Grasmere Journal. These fragments have a special topographical interest, from their description of Helvellyn, and its spring, the fountain of the mists, and the stones on the summit. On the outside leather cover of the MS. book there is written, “May to Dec. 1802.”
The following lines come first:—
There is a shapeless crowd of unhewn stones[345]
That lie together, some in heaps, and some