"My dazzled sight he oft deceives,
A brother of the dancing leaves;
Then flits, and from the Cottage eaves
Pours forth his song in gushes;

As if by that exulting strain

He mocked and treated with disdain

The voiceless Form he chose to feign,
While fluttering in the bushes."

To a Young Lady, etc. (page 82).—Composed before February 12, 1802, on which date it appeared in The Morning Post, entitled, To a beautiful Young Lady, who had been harshly spoken of on account of her fondness for taking long walks in the Country. See note on Louisa (vol. i., p. 7) as to the identity of the "Young Lady," whom the writer believes to have been "the light-hearted maid," Joanna Hutchinson. It should, however, be added to what is there said, that in 1794 Dorothy had been rebuked by her grand-aunt Crackanthorp for "rambling about the country on foot." In 1836 'heart-stirring' was substituted for the vague' delightful' (1. 5), and in 1827 11. 8, 9 became:

"And treading among flowers of joy

That ['which,' 1836] at no season fade," etc.

In 1. 16 an enormous gain was effected by the substitution of 6 serene' for alive —a gain in sound

no less than sense.

"By their floating mill," etc. (page 84).-Composed 1806 (W.-1836). This poem, with Star Gazers and the Power of Music doubtless belongs to Wordsworth's visit to London in the Spring of 1806. The floating mill was seen in the course of a riverside walk with Charles Lamb. Line 34 (“Each leaf, that and this, his neighbour will kiss ") may be a reminiscence of Drayton, The Muses' Elysium, Nymphal vi., ll. 4-7:

"The wind had no more strength than this,
That leisurely it blew,

To make one leaf the next to kiss

That closely by it grew."

See Works of the British Poets, with Prefaces, &c., by Robert Anderson, M.D. London: J. & A. Arch, 1794, vol. iii., p. 622. In the Fenwick Note to Yarrow Visited, Wordsworth acknowledges his

obligations to this repertory of English verse, which his brother John, on quitting Grasmere (Sept. 29, 1800), never to return, had presented to him. Through these volumes, he says, he first became familiar with Chaucer, Drayton, Daniel, Wither, and other famous old poets. The text of this collection-for which, however, Anderson disclaimed all responsibility-is shamefully inaccurate, and is chargeable with at least one of Wordsworth's blunders in his modernization of Troylus and Creseide, his ludicrous misreading of 'continuance' for ' countenance,' spelt 'countinaunce,' in 1. 21.

Star Gazers (page 87).—Composed 1806 (W.1836). See date-note to preceding poem. No textual changes of importance.

Power of Music (page 90).-Composed 1806 (W.-1836). See date-note to preceding poem. No textual changes of importance.

To the Daisy (page 93).-Composed 1802. See author's note to No. 1 of the three Daisy poems (vol. i., p. 1). Line 3 became, in 1836, "Yet once again I talk to thee," and in 1845, "Daisy! again I talk to thee." See note on 11. 10, 13 of The Solitary

Reaper. Lines 9, 10, in 1820, become:

"Oft on the dappled turf at ease

I sit, and play with similies," (sic)

—and in 1836 ‘bright' replaces 'sweet' (1. 41).

To the same Flower (page 97).—Composed 1802. See date-note of preceding poem. Lines 1-4 were recast in 1837, but in 1840 became, by partial reversion to 1807:

"Bright Flower! whose home is everywhere, Bold in maternal Nature's care,

And all the long year through the heir

Of joy or ['and' 1849] sorrow."

The third stanza was omitted in edd. 1827 and 1832, but restored in 1837. In the Fenwick Note (1843) Wordsworth alludes to the animadversions of the critics on the last two lines, and explains that by 'apostolical' he means simply missionary.' He is evidently thinking of the Aristarchus of the Simpliciad, who delivers himself on this passage as follows: 'I know not whether a more perfect instance of silliness is to be detected in the whole

farrago of the school, than the following stanzamark ye! addrest to the Daisy. [Stanza iii. follows, the last two lines in small capitals.] I may be pardoned for exclaiming with Cowper:

"From such apostles, O ye mitred heads,
Preserve the church!

Incident Characteristic of a favourite Dog (page 99).-Composed 1805 (W.-1837). Little Music belonged to the Poet's wife's brother, Tom Hutchinson of Sockburn-on-Tees, county Durham, afterwards (1800) of Gallow Hill, near Scarborough, where the dog, old and blind, fell into a draw-well and perished. See next poem. In 1815 the last line of stanza iv. became : "And fondly strives her," etc.; and in 1837 the last line of the poem became :

her fellow sinks, to reappear no more."

"Until

Tribute to the Memory, etc. (page 102).—Composed 1805 (W.-1837). The pious susceptibilities of the Simpliciad critic were touched by the words, "holy ground" (1. 2), and by ll. 13, 14: “I pray'd for thee," etc., which, after his wonted fashion of notifying an unutterable malfeasance on the part of