in saying that this poem is absent from the first edition of 1820; it appears, but in a later part of the volume. -ED. "Not envying Latian shades" (page 283). Ll. 1-4 (1837); previously: "Not envying shades which haply yet may throw Of the Horatian lyre with babbling flow." In the emended version Wordsworth alters the rimesystem of the octave. L. 8, "ice-built arches" (1837); previously "icy portals." Ll. 11, 12 (1837); previously: "Better to breathe upon this aëry height "Child of the clouds!" (page 284). L. 12, "darkest green" (1845); previously "sombre green."."-ED. "How shall I paint thee?" (page 284). L. 8, "ground" (1837); previously "grounds." -Ed. "Take, cradled Nursling" (page 285). Ll. 9, 10 (1820); ed. 1838 reads: "Lo! from a distant steep the undaunted Rill "Sole listener, Duddon!" (page 285). Text unchanged. Supposed to describe Cockley Beck. -ED. VI., VII. (page 286). Text unchanged.-ED. "There bloomed the strawberry of the wilderness; The trembling eyebright showed her sapphire blue" (page 286). These two lines are in a great measure taken from "The Beauties of Spring, a Juvenile Poem," by the Rev. : Joseph Sympson. He was a native of Cumberland, and was educated in the vale of Grasmere, and at Hawkshead school his poems are little known, but they contain passages of splendid description; and the versification of his "Vision of Alfred" is harmonious and animated. In describing the motions of the Sylphs, that constitute the strange machinery of his Poem, he uses the following illustrative simile Glancing from their plumes He was a man of ardent feeling, and his faculties of mind, particularly his memory, were extraordinary. Brief notices of his life ought to find a place in the History of Westmoreland.-W. W. "What aspect," etc. (page 287). L. 8 (1837); previously "No voice replies;—the earth, the air is mute.' Supposed to describe the upper valley of the Duddon. In his "Guide to the Lakes" Wordsworth speaks of the "cerulean colour" of the water of the Derwent and the Duddon arising from the rock or blue gravel seen through the pellucid stream. (See 1. 10). -ED. "The Stepping-Stones" (page 287). L. 3 (1837); previously "plank and arch." Mr. Rix believes that the stepping-stones which suggested the Sonnets IX., X. are those opposite Seathwaite, but that in arranging the series Wordsworth placed the sonnets, by design or accident, in a position which better suits stepping-stones between Cockley Beck and Birks Brig. -ED. The Same Subject (page 288). Text unchanged.-ED. The Faery Chasm (page 289). Text unchanged. Mr. Rix supposes that the chasm is the rocky gorge crossed by Birks Brig, considerably above Seathwaite.-ED. Hints for the Fancy (page 289). L. 14 (1827); in 1820, "Leave them—and, if thou canst, without regret." The scene is supposed to be the gorge below Birks Brig.-ED. Open Prospect (page 290). L. 3, "Clustering" (1837); previously "Cluster'd." Mr. Rix identifies the point of view with the summit of the Pen Crag; the "one small hamlet" with Seathwaite ; "the spouting mill' is now a ruin."-ED. "O mountain Stream!" (page 290). Written before 1807; first published 1807 with the title "To the River Duddon." L. 13, "thy" (1820); "thine " (1807).-ED. "From this deep chasm" (page 291). Text unchanged. Mr. Rix supposes that the "chasm " lies between the Pen on the left and Wallabarrow Crag on the right.-ED. American Tradition (page 291). Text unchanged.-ED. Return (page 292). Ll. 3, 4 (1820); ed. 1838 reads: "Wheeling aloft this Bird of Rome invokes L. 8, "That, calmly couching" (1827); calmly" (1820). "That slept so L. 10, "Slept amid" (1827); "These couched 'mid" (1820). L. 12, "Or, near" (1827); "These near" (1820).—Ed. Seathwaite Chapel (page 292). L. 1. The quotation is from the poet Daniel. L. 5 (1837); previously "If one strong wish may be embosomed here," L. 12 (1845); previously "Such Priest as Chaucer sang in fervent lays; "-ED. Sonnets XVII, and XVIII. (page 292). The EAGLE requires a large domain for its support : but several pairs, not many years ago, were constantly resident in this country, building their nests in the steeps of Borrowdale, Wastdale, Ennerdale, and on the eastern side of Helvellyn. Often have I heard anglers speak of the grandeur of their appearance, as they hovered over Red Tarn, in one of the coves of this mountain. The bird frequently returns, but is always destroyed. Not long since, one visited Rydal lake, and remained some hours near its banks: the consternation which it occasioned among the different species of fowl, particularly the herons, was expressed by loud screams. The horse also is naturally afraid of the eagle.-There were several Roman stations among these mountains; the most considerable seems to have been in a meadow at the head of Windermere, established, undoubtedly, as a check over the Passes of Kirkstone, Dunmailraise, and of Hardknot and Wrynose. On the margin of Rydal lake, a coin of Trajan was discovered very lately.-The ROMAN FORT here alluded to, called by the country people "Hardknot Castle," is most impressively situated half-way down the hill on the right of the road that descends from Hardknot into Eskdale. It has escaped the notice of most antiquarians, and is but slightly mentioned by Lysons. The DRUIDICAL CIRCLE is about half a mile to the left of the road ascending Stone-side from the vale of Duddon: the country people call it Sunken Church. The reader who may have been interested in the foregoing Sonnets (which together may be considered as a Poem), will not be displeased to find in this place a prose account of the Duddon, extracted from Green's comprehensive" Guide to the Lakes," lately published. "The road leading from Coniston to Broughton is over high ground, and commands a view of the River Duddon which, at high water, is a grand sight, having the beautiful and fertile lands of Lancashire and Cumberland stretching each way from its margin. In this extensive view, the face of nature is displayed in a wonderful variety of hill and dale; wooded grounds and buildings; amongst the latter Broughton Tower, seated on the crown of a hill, rising elegantly from the valley, is an object of extraordinary interest. Fertility on each side is gradually diminished, and lost in the superior heights of Blackcomb, in Cumberland, and the high lands between Kirkby and Ulverstone." "The road from Broughton to Seathwaite is on the banks of the Duddon, and on its Lancashire side it is of various elevations. The river is an amusing companion, one while brawling and tumbling over rocky precipices, until the agitated water becomes again calm by arriving at a smoother and less precipitous bed, but its course is soon again ruffled, and the current thrown into every variety of foam which the rocky channel of a river can give to water."-Vide Green's Guide to the Lakes, vol. i. pp. 98-100. After all, the traveller would be most gratified who should approach this beautiful Stream, neither at its source, as is done in the Sonnets, nor from its termination; but from Coniston over Walna Scar; first descending into a little circular valley, a collateral compartment of the long winding vale through which flows the Duddon. This recess, towards the close of September, when the after-grass of the meadows is still of a fresh green, with the leaves of many of the trees faded, but perhaps none fallen, is truly enchanting. At a point elevated enough to show the various objects in the valley, and not so high as to diminish their importance, the stranger will instinctively halt. On the foreground, a little below the most favourable station, a rude footbridge is thrown over the bed of the noisy brook foaming by the way-side. Russet and craggy hills, of bold and varied outline, surround the level valley, which is besprinkled with grey rocks plumed with birch trees. A few homesteads are interspersed, in some places peeping out from among the rocks like hermitages, whose site has been chosen for the benefit of sunshine as well as shelter; in |