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1836.
Semblance, with straw and
pannier’d ass, they made
Of potters wandering on from
door to door:
But life of happier sort to
me pourtrayed, 1798.
They with their pannier’d
Asses semblance made
Of Potters ...
1802.]
[Variant 59:
1836.
In depth of forest glade, when ... 1798.
Among the forest glades when ... 1802.]
[Variant 60:
1802.
But ill it suited me, in journey dark 1798.]
[Variant 61:
1802.
Poor father! ... 1798.]
[Variant 62:
1842.
Ill was I ... 1798.]
[Variant 63:
1842.
With tears whose course no
effort could confine,
By high-way side forgetful
would I sit 1798.
By the road-side forgetful would I sit 1802.
In the open air forgetful ... 1836.]
[Variant 64:
1836.
... my ... 1798.]
[Variant 65:
1836.
I lived upon the mercy of
the fields,
And oft of cruelty the sky
accused;
On hazard, or what general
bounty yields, 1798.
I led a wandering life among
the fields;
Contentedly, yet sometimes
self-accused,
I liv’d upon what casual
bounty yields, 1802.]
[Variant 66:
1802.
The fields ... 1798.]
[Variant 67:
1836.
Three years a wanderer, often
have I view’d,
In tears, the sun towards
that country tend 1798.
Three years thus wandering, ... 1802.]
[Variant 68:
1836.
And now across this moor my steps I bend— 1798.]
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[Footnote A: In the ‘Prelude’, he says it was “three summer days.” See book xiii. l. 337.—Ed.]
[Footnote B: By an evident error, corrected in the first reprint of this edition (1840). See p. 37.—Ed.[Footnote D of ‘Descriptive Sketches’, the preceding poem in this text.]]
[Footnote C: From a short MS. poem read to me when an under-graduate, by my schoolfellow and friend Charles Farish, long since deceased. The verses were by a brother of his, a man of promising genius, who died young.—W. W. 1842.
Charles Farish was the author of ’The Minstrels of Winandermere’.—Ed.]
[Footnote D: Compare Milton’s “grinding sword,” ‘Paradise Lost’, vi. l. 329.—Ed.]
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[Sub-Footnote i: Several of the Lakes in the north of England are let out to different Fishermen, in parcels marked out by imaginary lines drawn from rock to rock.—W. W. 1798.]
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