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[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 rivals.h.i.+p 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.]
FOOTNOTES ON THE TEXT
[Footnote A: The t.i.tle 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 gra.s.sed 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 shaped as that of the famous cobler, near Arracher, in Scotland.--W. W. 1819.]
[Footnote F: A term well known in the North of England, as applied to rural Festivals, where young persons meet in the evening for the purpose of dancing.--W. W. 1819.]
[Footnote G: At the close of each strathspey, or jig, a particular note from the fiddle summons the Rustic to the agreeable duty of saluting his Partner.--W. W. 1819.]
[Footnote H: Compare in 'Tristram Shandy':
"And this, said he, is the town of Namur, and this is the citadel: and there lay the French, and here lay his honour and myself."--Ed.]
[Footnote J: See Wordsworth's note [Note III to this poem, below], p.
109.--Ed.]
[Footnote K: The crag of the ewe lamb.--W. W. 1820.]
[Footnote L: Compare Tennyson's "Farewell, we lose ourselves in light."--Ed.]
[Footnote M: Compare Wordsworth's lines, beginning, "She was a Phantom of delight," p. i, and Hamlet, act II. sc. ii. l. 124.--Ed.]
SUB-FOOTNOTE ON THE TEXT
[Sub-Footnote a: See Wordsworth's note [Note II to the poem, below], p.
109.--Ed.]
