The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 eBook

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APPENDIX VII

‘Lines written in Early Spring’, ll. 11, 12

Compare the ‘Laws of Manu’, i. 49: 

  “Vegetables, as well as animals, have internal consciousness, and are
  sensible of pleasure and pain.”

This I have received from a correspondent, but I have never seen the English version.—­Ed.

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APPENDIX VIII

‘An Evening Walk’

(1) l. 219,

    “His neck, a varying arch, between his towering wings.”

Compare ‘Paradise Lost’, book vii. l. 438.

(2) l. 286, in the footnote reading of 1793, the line occurs

    “Or clock, that blind against the wanderer borne.”

This refers to the winged beetle, the buzzard-clock.

(3) l. 323, “The bird, etc.”  The owl.  Compare Cowper’s ‘Task’, i. ll. 205, 206.

END OF VOL.  I.

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