In all else the edition of 1820 is identical with the final text of 1827.]

[Variant 48: 

1836.

  Some went, and some towards the Lake; ... 1800.

  Some hastened, some towards the Lake:  ... 1820.]

[Variant 49: 

1815.

  ...  Lad ... 1800.]

[Variant 50: 

1820.

  ... said ... 1800.]

[Variant 51: 

1815.

  ...  Lad ... 1800.]

[Variant 52: 

1836.

  Upon the grass, ... 1800.]

[Variant 53: 

1836.

  ... he perish’d:  at the time,
  We guess, that in his hands he must have had 1800.

  must have held 1827.]

[Variant 54: 

1836.

  ... for midway in the cliff
  It had been caught, and there for many years 1800.]

[Variant 55: 

1815.

  ... but he felt
  Tears rushing in; both left the spot in silence, 1800.]

[Variant 56: 

1836.

  Pointing towards the Cottage, he entreated 1800.]

[Variant 57: 

1836.

  ... fervent 1800.]

[Variant 58: 

1836.

  Were with him in his heart:  his cherish’d hopes, 1800.]

[Variant 59: 

1836.

  ... travell’d on ... 1800.]

[Variant 60: 

1802.

  That night, address’d a letter to the Priest 1800.]

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FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT

[Footnote A:  This Poem was intended to be the concluding poem of a series of pastorals, the scene of which was laid among the mountains of Cumberland and Westmoreland.  I mention this to apologise for the abruptness with which the poem begins.—­W.  W. 1800.]

[Footnote B:  In Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journal the following entry occurs: 

  “Friday, 6th August (1800).—­In the morning I copied ’The Brothers’.”

Ed.]

[Footnote C:  This description of the Calenture is sketched from an imperfect recollection of an admirable one in prose, by Mr. Gilbert, Author of ’The Hurricane’.—­W.  W. 1800.

Compare another reference to ’The Hurricane; a Theosophical and Western Eclogue’ etc., by William Gilbert, in one of the notes to ’The Excursion’, book iii. l. 931.—­Ed.]

[Footnote D:  The impressive circumstance here described, actually took place some years ago in this country, upon an eminence called Kidstow Pike, one of the highest of the mountains that surround Hawes-water.  The summit of the pike was stricken by lightning; and every trace of one of the fountains disappeared, while the other continued to flow as before.—­W.  W. 1800.]

[Footnote E:  There is not any thing more worthy of remark in the manners of the inhabitants of these mountains, than the tranquillity, I might say indifference, with which they think and talk upon the subject of death.  Some of the country church-yards, as here described, do not contain a single tomb-stone, and most of them have a very small number.—­W.  W. 1800.]