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garden to warrant the phrase, "its own small pasture." It is unnecessary to localise the allusions.--ED. VARIANTS: [1] 1837. Yes, there is holy pleasure in thine eye! 1807. [2] 1827. ... oh! do not sigh, 1807. [3] 1827. Sighing a wish to tear ... 1807. [4] 1827. This blissful leaf, with worst impiety. 1807. ... with harsh impiety. 1815. [5] 1827. ... would ... 1807. [6] 1838. ... would melt, and melt away! 1807. FOOTNOTES: [A] Compare the lines in _Peter Bell_, vol. ii. p. 13-- Where deep and low the hamlets lie Beneath their little patch of sky And little lot of stars. ED. "'BELOVED VALE!' I SAID, 'WHEN I SHALL CON'" Composed 1806.--Published 1807 One of the "Miscellaneous Sonnets."--ED. "Beloved Vale!" I said, "when I shall con Those many records of my childish years, Remembrance of myself and of my peers Will press me down: to think of what is gone Will be an awful thought, if life have one." 5 But, when into the Vale I came, no fears Distressed me; from mine eyes escaped no tears;[1] Deep thought, or dread remembrance, had I none.[2] By doubts and thousand petty fancies crost[3] I stood, of simple shame the blushing Thrall;[A] 10 So narrow seemed the brooks, the fields so small![4] A Juggler's balls old Time about him tossed; I looked, I stared, I smiled, I laughed; and all The weight of sadness was in wonder lost. Doubtless the "Vale" referred to is that of Hawkshead; the "brooks" may refer to the one that feeds Esthwaite lake, or to Sawrey beck, or (more likely) to the streamlet, "the famous brook within our garden boxed," described in _The Prelude_, books i. and ii. (vol. iii.) See also _The Fountain_, vol. ii. p. 92.--ED. VARIANTS: [1] 1827. Distress'd me; I look'd round, I shed no tears; 1807. [2] 1837. ... or awful vision, I had none. 1807. ... had I none. 1827. [3] 1827. By thousand petty fancies I was cross'd, 1807. [4] 1827. To see the Trees, which I had thought so tall, Mere dwarfs; the
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