peace or war,
Round the object of their care
In a perilous moment threw
A veil of such celestial hue. C.

Round each object of their care C.]

[Variant 62:

1819.

Fails to shield ... 1836.

The text of 1845 returns to that of 1819.]

[Variant 63:

1836.

Or ... 1819.]

[Variant 64:

1819.

If, as he cannot but forebode, 1836.

The text of 1845 returns to that of 1819.]

[Variant 65:

1836.

Thou hast loitered ... 1819.]

[Variant 66:

1836.

His doubts--his fears ... 1819.]

[Variant 67:

1827. (Compressing two lines into one.)

Sometimes, as in the present case,
Will show a more familiar face; 1819.

Or, proud all rivalship to chase,
Will haunt me with familiar face; 1820.]

[Variant 68:

1819.

Or, with milder grace ... 1832.

The edition of 1845 reverts to the text of 1819.]

[Variant 69:

1836.

... window ... 1819.]

[Variant 70: "Once" 'italicised' in 1820 only.]

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FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT

[Footnote A: The title page of the edition of 1819 runs as follows: The
Waggoner, A Poem. To which are added, Sonnets. By William Wordsworth.

"What's in a NAME?"
...
"Brutus will start a Spirit as soon as Caesar!"

London, etc. etc., 1819,--Ed.]

[Footnote B: See 'The Seasons' (Summer), ll. 977-79.--Ed.]

[Footnote C: Such is the progress of refinement, this rude piece of
self-taught art has been supplanted by a professional production.--W. W.
1819.

Mr. William Davies writes to me,

"I spent a week there (the Swan Inn) early in the fifties, and well
remember the sign over the door distinguishable from afar: the inn,
little more than a cottage (the only one), with clean well-sanded
floor, and rush-bottomed chairs: the landlady, good old soul, one day
afraid of burdening me with some old coppers, insisted on retaining
them till I should return from an uphill walk, when they were duly
tendered to me. Here I learnt many particulars of Hartley Coleridge,
dead shortly before, who had been a great favourite with the host and
hostess. The grave of Wordsworth was at that time barely grassed
over."--Ed.]

[Footnote D: See Wordsworth's note [Note I to this poem, below], p.
109.--Ed.]

[Footnote E: A mountain of Grasmere, the broken summit of which presents
two figures, full as distinctly sha