… amid …
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They tempt the water, or …
MS.
[365] The foregoing twenty-seven lines were published under the title Water-Fowl, in the 1827 edition of Wordsworth’s “Poetical Works.” They are also printed in the fifth edition of the Guide through the District of the Lakes in the North of England (section first).—Ed.
[366] Compare Paradise Lost, book xii. l. 646.—Ed.
[367] Compare, in the After-Thought to “The Duddon Sonnets”—
Still glides the Stream, and shall for ever glide.
Ed.